Richard Brautigan Quotes
Top 74 wise famous quotes and sayings by Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I walked home past the glass whiskers of the houses, reflecting the downward rushing waterfalls of night.
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
My God, ma'am, you're so pretty I'd walk ten miles barefooted on a freezing morning to stand in your shit.
All girls should have a poem
written for them even if
we have to turn this God-damn world
upside down to do it.
written for them even if
we have to turn this God-damn world
upside down to do it.
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.
People need a little loving and, God, sometimes it's sad all the shit they have to go through to find some.
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.
I'll affect you slowly
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants.
It won't rain.
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants.
It won't rain.
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.
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.
He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle.
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
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.
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.
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
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.
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.
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.
Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself
and listen to it.
until you arrive at the silence of yourself
and listen to it.
He looked ninety years old for thirty years and then he got the notion that he would die, and did so.
Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore.
There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.