Quotes from Queer: A Novel — William S. Burroughs
1914–1997 United States
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Like many people who have nothing to do, he was very resentful of any claims on his time.
Queer: A Novel (1985)
Stupid people can learn a language quiet and easy because there is nothing going on in there to keep it out.
Queer: A Novel (1985)
"Sit down on your ass, or what's left of it after four years in the navy."
Queer: A Novel (1985)
The rudeness of many Americans depressed him, a rudeness based on a solid ignorance of the whole concept of manners, and on the proposition that for social purposes, all people are more or less equal and interchangeable.
Queer: A Novel (1985)
Many so called primitives are afraid of cameras. They think it can capture their soul and take it away. There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, sexual intensity, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
Queer: A Novel (1985)
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.
Queer: A Novel (1985)
Every time I hit Panama, the place is exactly one month, two months, six months more nowhere, like the progress of a degenerative illness. A shift from arithmetic to geometric progressive seems to have occurred. Something ugly and ignoble and subhuman is cooking in this mongrel town of pimps and whores and recessive genes, this degraded leech on the Canal.
Queer: A Novel (1985)