The Place of Dead Roads Quotes

“There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

“He remembers his fathers last words: “Stay out of churches, son. All they got a key to is the shit house. And swear to me you’ll never wear a lawman’s badge.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

“God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole sinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top. The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

“The Industrial Revolution is primarily a virus revolution, dedicated to proliferation of identical objects and persons. You are making soap, you don't give a shit who buys your soap, the more the soapier.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

“A chaotic situation is always deliberately produced. Ask yourself who or what sort of creature could benefit from such a situation.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

“This planet is a penal colony and nobody is allowed to leave.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

“The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

“We’re not fighting for a scrap of sharecropper immortality with the strings hanging off it like Mafioso spaghetti. We want the whole tamale. The Johnsons are taking over the Western Lands. We built it with our brains and our hands. We paid for it with our blood and our lives. It’s ours and we’re going to take it. And we are not applying in triplicate to the Immortality Control Board. Anybody gets in our way we will get our communal back against a rock or a tree and fight the way a raccoon will fight a fucking dog.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

“The figure had emerged from a lightless region where everything we have been taught, all the conventional feelings, do not apply.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

“Wenn scheissen Blut con Messer spritz dehn geht schon alles gut.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

“But just wait until your thinking is basically different from the thinking of a boss or a teacher. You will find out that you aren't supposed to think. Life is an entanglement of lies to hid its basic mechanisms.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

“You don't sell a film by saying you won't show it. There may be secrets too horrible for a man to know and keep his own sanity but that won't go down in Hollywood, Mister.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

“Brummel would rush upon his plate & gulp down a roast in such a revolting manner that the other guests complained they were nauseated and Brummel had to be fed in his room ……….”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

“Sangre de Cristo! Blood of Christ! Rivers of blood! Mountains of blood! Does Christ never get tired of bleeding?”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

“Dead people are less frightening than living ones.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads