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Queer, William Burroughs
William Burroughs

Queer

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  • Rosehas quoted10 days ago
    Murder is the national neurosis of Mexico.
  • Johhny Medinahas quotedlast month
    I mean a definite possessing entity. And indeed, the psychological concept might well have been devised by the possessing entities, since nothing is more dangerous to a possessor than being seen as a separate invading creature by the host it has invaded. And for this reason the possessor shows itself only when absolutely necessary.
  • Johhny Medinahas quotedlast month
    While the addict is indifferent to the impression he creates in others, during withdrawal he may feel the compulsive need for an audience, and this is clearly what Lee seeks in Allerton: an audience, the acknowledgement of his performance, which of course is a mask, to cover a shocking disintegration
  • Johhny Medinahas quotedlast month
    As soon as something is written, it loses the power of surprise, just as a virus loses its advantage when a weakened virus has created alerted antibodies. So I achieved some immunity from further perilous ventures along these lines by writing my experience down.
  • Johhny Medinahas quotedlast month
    should I wish to chronicle so carefully these extremely painful and unpleasant and lacerating memories? While it was I who wrote Junky, I feel that I was being written in Queer.
  • Johhny Medinahas quotedlast month
    Billie Holliday said she knew she was off junk when she stopped watching TV.
  • Johhny Medinahas quotedlast month
    Kelly was an American hipster who had been shot in the Ship Ahoy six months before, had recovered, and was now in the U.S. Army. No woman was ever raped there, and no one ever smoked weed there. By now
    I had entirely abandoned my plans to open a bar in Mexico.
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