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I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon. — Richard Brautigan

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things. — Richard Brautigan

God-forsaken is beautiful, too. — Richard Brautigan

I walked home past the glass whiskers of the houses, reflecting the downward rushing waterfalls of night. — Richard Brautigan

All of us have a place in history. mine is clouds. — Richard Brautigan

He was leaving for America, often only a place in the mind. — Richard Brautigan

USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE.
MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED. — Richard Brautigan

He used sweet wine in place of life because he didn't have any more life to use. — Richard Brautigan

Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing. — Richard Brautigan

Let us pretend that my mind is a taxi ... and suddenly you are riding in it. — Richard Brautigan

I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard — Richard Brautigan

The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it. — Richard Brautigan

My God, ma'am, you're so pretty I'd walk ten miles barefooted on a freezing morning to stand in your shit. — Richard Brautigan

Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. — Richard Brautigan

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds. — Richard Brautigan

All girls should have a poem
written for them even if
we have to turn this God-damn world
upside down to do it. — Richard Brautigan

The only thing he likes better than a nice juicy homicide is a sirloin steak smothered with onions. — Richard Brautigan

We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST. — Richard Brautigan

You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed. — Richard Brautigan

Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you. — Richard Brautigan

I feel as if I am an ad
for the sale of a haunted house:
18 rooms
$37,000
I'm yours
ghosts and all. — Richard Brautigan

People need a little loving and, God, sometimes it's sad all the shit they have to go through to find some. — Richard Brautigan

The girl was very pretty and her body was like a clear mountain river of skin and muscle flowing over rocks of bone and hidden nerves. — Richard Brautigan

I'll affect you slowly
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants.
It won't rain. — Richard Brautigan

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this — Richard Brautigan

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. — Richard Brautigan

In a Cafe
I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover. — Richard Brautigan

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it. — Richard Brautigan

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise. — Richard Brautigan

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream.
I'm not, she said. — Richard Brautigan

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative. — Richard Brautigan

One day
Time will die
And love will bury it — Richard Brautigan

Money is sad shit — Richard Brautigan

Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness. — Richard Brautigan

He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it. — Richard Brautigan

The flies were teaching an advanced seminar in philosophy as they crawled up the crack of my ass — Richard Brautigan

The old drunk told me about trout fishing. When he could talk, he had a way of describing trout as if they were a precious and intelligent metal. — Richard Brautigan

The thought of her hands
touching his hair
makes me want to vomit. — Richard Brautigan

He looked as if he'd got a lot of pleasure out of going ten rounds with your grandmother and making sure she went the whole distance. — Richard Brautigan

I do not care to be esthetically tickled in a fancy theater surrounded by an audience drenched in the confident perfume of culture. I can't afford it. — Richard Brautigan

The fish was a twelve-inch rainbow trout with a huge hump on its back. A hunchback trout. — Richard Brautigan

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows. — Richard Brautigan

We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink. — Richard Brautigan

In Watermelon Sugar deeds were done — Richard Brautigan

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis. — Richard Brautigan

He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle. — Richard Brautigan

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself
and listen to it. — Richard Brautigan

The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said — Richard Brautigan

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult. — Richard Brautigan

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come. — Richard Brautigan

Good luck, good will, good fortune, not ill. — Stephen King

Watcha doin? If you're like me, you're doin nothin, but you're doin it so well that everybody thinks you're doin somethin. — Richard Brautigan

Just because people love your mind, doesn't mean they have to have your body, too — Richard Brautigan

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up. — Richard Brautigan

You've got
some 'Star-Spangled'
nails
in your coffin, kid.
That's what
they've done for you,
son. — Richard Brautigan

I guess some people lived like Reader's Digest, but I hadn't met any and at that time it seemed doubtful that I ever would — Richard Brautigan

He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans. — Richard Brautigan

It was not an outhouse resting upon the imagination. It was reality. — Richard Brautigan

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end. — Richard Brautigan

We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love. — Richard Brautigan

Messy, isn't it? — Richard Brautigan

I read the note and it did not please me and I threw it away, so not even time could find it. — Richard Brautigan

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant. — Richard Brautigan

Her sunny side was always up. — Richard Brautigan

For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all. — Richard Brautigan

In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar. — Richard Brautigan

She had a voice that made Pearl Harbor seem like a lullaby. — Richard Brautigan

Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming home — Richard Brautigan

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs. — Richard Brautigan

Our names were made for us in another century. — Richard Brautigan

He looked ninety years old for thirty years and then he got the notion that he would die, and did so. — Richard Brautigan

Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore. — Richard Brautigan

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written. — Richard Brautigan

I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers. — Richard Brautigan

There wasn't a single thing in there that reminded me of my existence. — Richard Brautigan