Everything Lost Quotes

“Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.”
― William S. Burroughs, Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs

“A Cross roads of Space - Time travel, winds of change and death, dispersion. A waiting room - where you grab a quick drink - before your train leaves. Cold fear of being left alone in the waiting room after all the trains had left.”
― William S. Burroughs, Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs

“The New World is a great lack, a yearning, an ache of despair. Deprivation and crippling shrinkage. The fish caught in the shrinking pond.”
― William S. Burroughs, Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs

“Control is growing like a cancer, a proliferating tumor of stupidity.”
― William S. Burroughs, Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs

“Stasis horrors. Not only I am never simple, but everyone else has gone.”
― William S. Burroughs, Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs

“A wave of misery and pain hit me like a main line shot, settling in the lungs and around the heart. Then I knew I was hung up on M. Just the same as ever. I put the magazine away slowly, and walked outside and leaned against a post. It was like missing the train, everybody had gone away and left me.”
― William S. Burroughs, Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs

“Photography. There is something obscene here, desire to capture, imprison incorporate.”
― William S. Burroughs, Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs