William S. Burroughs Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. ... Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Real, Home

  "Strange cats" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 1995.

• For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like most answers, you have always known it: No context ... like a stuffed animal set on the floor of a bank.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Morning, Animal

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.507, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Moving, America

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.289, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Cutting, Men

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel”, p.42, Holt Paperbacks

• There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

  William S. Burroughs

  Love, Life, Dream

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Spontaneous, Dangerous

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.289, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Faces, Danger

  William S. Burroughs (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA

• Dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Long, Enough

• He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Wall, Sleep

  William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr

• Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent. I don't know what it needs or how to provide for it. Another dream years ago of a human child with eyes on stalks. It is very small, but can walk and talk "Don't you want me?" Again, I don't know how to care for the child. But I am dedicated to protecting and nurturing him at any cost! It is the function of the Guardian to protect hybrids and mutants in the vulnerable stage of infancy.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Children, Cat

  "The Cat Inside". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1986.

• Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Country, Lying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Wish, Mexico

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.64, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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