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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

It was not an outhouse resting upon the imagination. It was reality.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Her sunny side was always up.

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

Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming home

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

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

Our names were made for us in another century.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
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.

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

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

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

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

Messy, isn't it?

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

In Watermelon Sugar deeds were done

We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink.

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

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