Richard Brautigan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.”
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“Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.”
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“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”
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“I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.”
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“Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.”
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“the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America.”
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“You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.”
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“The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of print, and no one wanted to read them any more and the people who had read the books had died or forgotten about them, but through the organic process of music the books had become virgins again.”
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“Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this”
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“All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.”
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“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.”
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“I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.”
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“We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.”
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“The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.”
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“Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.”
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“Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,” I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at peace, and ask yourself, “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.”
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“There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.”
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“I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.”
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“Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.”
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“Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.”
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“For the rest of my life I'll be thinking about that hamburger. I'll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn't like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers...”
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“All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this goddamn world upside down to do it.”
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“It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.”
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“I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.”
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“Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.”
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“because you always have a clock strapped to your body, it's natural that i should think of you as the correct time: with your long blonde hair at 8:03, and your pulse-lightning breasts at 11:17, and your rose-meow smile at 5:30, i know i'm right.”
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“"I count a lot of things that there's no need to count," Cameron said. "Just because that's the way I am. But I count all the things that need to be counted."”
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“It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.”
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“We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.”
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“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
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