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Richard Brautigan quotes: I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon. I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon.
Richard Brautigan quotes: I'm in a constant process of thinking about things. I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.
Richard Brautigan quotes: God-forsaken is beautiful, too. God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
Richard Brautigan quotes: I walked home past the glass whiskers of the houses, reflecting the downward rushing waterfalls of night. I walked home past the glass whiskers of the houses, reflecting the downward rushing waterfalls of night.
Richard Brautigan quotes: All of us have a place in history. mine is clouds. All of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.
Richard Brautigan quotes: He was leaving for America, often only a place in the mind. He was leaving for America, often only a place in the mind.
Richard Brautigan quotes: USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE. MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED. USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE.
MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED.
Richard Brautigan quotes: He used sweet wine in place of life because he didn't have any more life to use. He used sweet wine in place of life because he didn't have any more life to use.
Richard Brautigan quotes: Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing. Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.
Richard Brautigan quotes: Let us pretend that my mind is a taxi ... and suddenly you are riding in it. Let us pretend that my mind is a taxi ... and suddenly you are riding in it.
Richard Brautigan quotes: 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 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 quotes: The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it. The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.
Richard Brautigan quotes: My God, ma'am, you're so pretty I'd walk ten miles barefooted on a freezing morning to stand in your shit. 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 quotes: Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars.
Richard Brautigan quotes: There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds. There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
Richard Brautigan quotes: All girls should have a poemwritten for them even ifwe have to turn this God-damn worldupside down to do it. 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 quotes: The only thing he likes better than a nice juicy homicide is a sirloin steak smothered with onions. The only thing he likes better than a nice juicy homicide is a sirloin steak smothered with onions.
Richard Brautigan quotes: We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST. We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
Richard Brautigan quotes: You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed. You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed.
Richard Brautigan quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I feel as if I am an adfor the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms$37,000I'm yoursghosts and all. 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 quotes: People need a little loving and, God, sometimes it's sad all the shit they have to go through to find some. People need a little loving and, God, sometimes it's sad all the shit they have to go through to find some.
Richard Brautigan quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I'll affect you slowlyas if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants.It won't rain. 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 quotes: Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this
Richard Brautigan quotes: Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.
Richard Brautigan quotes: I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise. I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.
Richard Brautigan quotes: I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it. I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
Richard Brautigan quotes: In a CafeI 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 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 quotes: Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream.I'm not, she said. Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream.
I'm not, she said.
Richard Brautigan quotes: I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative. I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.
Richard Brautigan quotes: One dayTime will dieAnd love will bury it One day
Time will die
And love will bury it
Richard Brautigan quotes: Money is sad shit Money is sad shit
Richard Brautigan quotes: Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness. Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.
Richard Brautigan quotes: 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 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 quotes: He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans. He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
Richard Brautigan quotes: 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 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: You've gotsome 'Star-Spangled' nailsin your coffin, kid.That's whatthey've done for you, son. You've got
some 'Star-Spangled'
nails
in your coffin, kid.
That's what
they've done for you,
son.
Richard Brautigan quotes: It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up. It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.
Richard Brautigan quotes: Just because people love your mind, doesn't mean they have to have your body, too Just because people love your mind, doesn't mean they have to have your body, too
Richard Brautigan quotes: 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. 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 quotes: It was not an outhouse resting upon the imagination. It was reality. It was not an outhouse resting upon the imagination. It was reality.
Richard Brautigan quotes: I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come. I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
Richard Brautigan quotes: 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. 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 quotes: It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult. It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.
Richard Brautigan quotes: 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. 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 quotes: He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it. He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.
Richard Brautigan quotes: The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said
Richard Brautigan quotes: The thought of her handstouching his hairmakes me want to vomit. The thought of her hands
touching his hair
makes me want to vomit.
Richard Brautigan quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The fish was a twelve-inch rainbow trout with a huge hump on its back. A hunchback trout. The fish was a twelve-inch rainbow trout with a huge hump on its back. A hunchback trout.
Richard Brautigan quotes: The flies were teaching an advanced seminar in philosophy as they crawled up the crack of my ass The flies were teaching an advanced seminar in philosophy as they crawled up the crack of my ass
Richard Brautigan quotes: Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written. Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.
Richard Brautigan quotes: In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar. In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.
Richard Brautigan quotes: Her sunny side was always up. Her sunny side was always up.
Richard Brautigan quotes: She had a voice that made Pearl Harbor seem like a lullaby. She had a voice that made Pearl Harbor seem like a lullaby.
Richard Brautigan quotes: Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming home Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming home
Richard Brautigan quotes: The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs. The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
Richard Brautigan quotes: I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant. I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.
Richard Brautigan quotes: Our names were made for us in another century. Our names were made for us in another century.
Richard Brautigan quotes: Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it. Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself
and listen to it.
Richard Brautigan quotes: He looked ninety years old for thirty years and then he got the notion that he would die, and did so. He looked ninety years old for thirty years and then he got the notion that he would die, and did so.
Richard Brautigan quotes: Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore. Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore.
Richard Brautigan quotes: For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all. For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.
Richard Brautigan quotes: I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers. I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.
Richard Brautigan quotes: There wasn't a single thing in there that reminded me of my existence. There wasn't a single thing in there that reminded me of my existence.
Richard Brautigan quotes: I read the note and it did not please me and I threw it away, so not even time could find it. I read the note and it did not please me and I threw it away, so not even time could find it.
Richard Brautigan quotes: Messy, isn't it? Messy, isn't it?
Richard Brautigan quotes: There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis. There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.
Richard Brautigan quotes: In Watermelon Sugar deeds were done In Watermelon Sugar deeds were done
Richard Brautigan quotes: We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink. We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink.
Richard Brautigan quotes: We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love. We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.
Richard Brautigan quotes: I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end. I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

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