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Beat (2000)

Kiefer Sutherland: William S. Burroughs

Beat

Kiefer Sutherland credited as playing...

William S. Burroughs

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  • Joan Vollmer: So, do they have ruins down in Guatemala?
  • William S. Burroughs: It's all ruins. Or it all will be, given enough time.
  • Joan Vollmer: Ah, just like people.
  • William S. Burroughs: Yes. But people decay more promptly than Mayan temples.
  • Lee: If you love your wife so much, why are you here with me?
  • William S. Burroughs: Love is not sex.
  • Joan Vollmer: Say Bill, does the Oedipal Complex get reversed for fags?
  • William S. Burroughs: [pause] Well, speaking from personal experience, I never wanted to fuck my father.
  • Joan Vollmer: [chuckles]
  • Lucien Carr: They'll probably give me the chair for this, huh?
  • William S. Burroughs: Don't be absurd. They don't fry freshman literature students.
  • Joan Vollmer: And what does your young man make of the Mayans?
  • William S. Burroughs: Well I have yet to inquire about his preference in lost civilizations.
  • Joan Vollmer: Ah, but he must like ruins.
  • William S. Burroughs: [chuckles] Yes. He likes me tolerably enough.
  • William S. Burroughs: Are you leaving me?
  • Joan Vollmer: Should I?
  • William S. Burroughs: [long pause] As you like.

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