And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks Quotes

“I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.”
― William S. Burroughs, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else's nose to prove they had been somewhere or done something. And I thought someday everyone in America will suddenly jump up and say, 'I don't take any shit!' and start pushing and cursing and clawing at the man next to him.”
― William S. Burroughs, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change.”
― William S. Burroughs, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?”
― Jack Kerouac, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“I had the feeling that all over America such stupid arguments were taking place on street corners and in bars and restaurants. All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else's nose to prove they had been somewhere or done something. And I thought someday everyone in America will suddenly jump up and say "I don't take any shit!" and start pushing and cursing and clawing at the man next to him.”
― William S. Burroughs, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.”
― William S. Burroughs, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.”
― William S. Burroughs, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“...both of us had a lot to say, but there was no room to say it in, we were so tense and close.”
― Jack Kerouac, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“As I was walking past Tony Pastor's I saw Pat, the lesbian bouncer, throw a drunken young sailor out into the street. The sailor said, "That place is full of fucking queers." He swung at the air and nearly fell on his face, then he staggered away, muttering to himself.”
― William S. Burroughs, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“I got up the next morning with morphine hangover. I poured myself a large glass of cold milk, which is an antidote for morphine.”
― William S. Burroughs, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutate into an amphibian, but someone keeps hanging on to you and telling you to stay in the pond, everything's going to be all right.”
― Jack Kerouac, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“A typical modern Puritan, she was able to believe in sin without believing in God. In fact, she felt there was something soft and sinful about believing in God. She rejected such indulgence like an indecent proposal.”
― William S. Burroughs, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“People in bars are always claiming to be boxers, hoping thereby to ward off attack, like a black snake will vibrate its tail in leaves and try to impersonate a rattlesnake.”
― William S. Burroughs, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“–Levántate y date una ducha, cabrón.
–¿Qué pasa?
–A mí no me vengas con qué pasa. Anoche fumaste marihuana.
–Pero no era nada buena, de todos modos –dije, y me fui al baño.”
― Jack Kerouac, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“Lo psicotico è uno che ha scoperto come vanno le cose”
― William S. Burroughs, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“There was something virile in her attitude toward tragedy, as though she were defying God to knock off the chip He Himself had placed on her shoulder.”
― Jack Kerouac, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“I've figured out a whole philosophy on the idea of waste as evil and creation as good. So long as you are creating something it is good. The only sin is waste of your potentialities... ...[Lifebuoy soap ads are] what you call wasteful creation. It's all dichotomized. Then there's creative waste, such as talking to you now.”
― William S. Burroughs, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“Этот твой филипов комплекс - что-то вроде христианского рая, недостижимый платонический идеал, иллюзия, которая вечно где-то рядом за углом, но здесь и сейчас - никогда.”
― Jack Kerouac, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks