Contact
Privacy
Book: Queer
Quotes of Book: Queer
TOP TAGS :tantrumsrealismmggmiracleconstructionpatrioticscarcityhumility

  1. William S. Burroughs _ Queer

    A curse. Been in our family for generations. The Lees have always been perverts. I shall never forget the unspeakable horror that froze the lymph in my glands-the lymph glands that is, of course-when the baneful word seared my reeling brain: . I thought of the painted, simpering female impersonators I'd seen in a Baltimore nightclub. Could it be possible I was one of those subhuman things? I walked the streets in a daze like a man with a light concussion-just a minute, Doctor Kildare, this isn't your script. I might well destroyed myself, ending an existence which seemed to offer nothing but grotesque misery and humiliation. Nobler, I thought, to die a man than live on, a sex monster. It was a wise old queen-Bobo, we called her-who taught me that I had a duty to live and bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love.
    book-quote

  2. William S. Burroughs _ Queer

    Anything that can be accomplished chemically can be accomplished in other ways.
    book-quote

  3. William S. Burroughs _ Queer

    Lee watched the thin hands, the beautiful violet eyes, the flush of excitement on the boy's face. An imaginary hand projected with such force it seemed Allerton must feel the touch of ectoplasmic fingers caressing his ear, phantom thumbs smoothing his eyebrows, pushing the hair back from his face. Now Lee's hands were running down his ribs, the stomach. Lee felt the aching pain of desire in his lungs.
    book-quote

  4. William S. Burroughs _ Queer

    A curse. Been in our family for generations. The Lees have always been perverts. I shall never forget the unspeakable horror that froze the lymph in my glands when the baneful word seared my reeling brain-I was a homosexual. I thought of the painted simpering female impersonators I'd seen in a Baltimore nightclub. Could it be possible I was one of those subhuman things? I walked the streets in a daze like a man with a light concussion. I would've destroyed myself. And a wise old queen-Bobo, we called her-taught me that I had a duty to live and bear my burden proudly for all to see. Poor Bobo came to a sticky end - he was riding in the Duke Devanche's Hispano Suissa when his falling hemorrhoids blew out of the car and wrapped around the rear wheel. He was completely gutted leaving an empty shell sitting there on the giraffe skin upholstry. Even the eyes and the brain went with a horrible "shlupping" sound. The Duke says he would carry that ghastly "shlup" with him to his mausoleum.
    book-quote

  5. William S. Burroughs _ Queer

    Sit down on your ass, or what's left of it after four years in the navy.
    book-quote

  6. William S. Burroughs _ Queer

    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.
    book-quote

  7. William S. Burroughs _ Queer

    Like many people who have nothing to do, he was very resentful of any claims on his time.
    book-quote

  8. William S. Burroughs _ Queer

    Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark.
    book-quote

  9. William S. Burroughs _ Queer

    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.
    book-quote
Categories