# Quote — William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys

> I saw the Colonel empty his revolver and go down under ten wild boys. A moment later they tossed his bleeding head into the air and started a ball game. Just at dusk the wild boys got up and padded away. They left the bodies stripped to the skin many with genitals cut off. The wild boys make little testicles in which they carry their hasish and khat.

- Author: [William S. Burroughs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-s-burroughs.md)
- Book: [The Wild Boys](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-s-burroughs/the-wild-boys.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-s-burroughs/the-wild-boys/i-saw-the

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> Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass.

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> I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.

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> ‘In the fields workers are planting maize seeds under the direction of an overseer with staff and headdress. Close-up of a worker’s face. Whatever it is that makes a man a man, all feeling and all soul has gone out in that face. Nothing is left but body needs and body pleasures. I have seen faces like that in the back wards of state hospitals for the insane. Faces that live to eat, shit and masturbate.’

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