Richard Brautigan Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: January 30, 1935 - September 14, 1984
Birthday: January 30
Death: September 14
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there watching their living room shining out of the dark beside the pond. It looked like a fairy-tale functioning happily in the post-World War II gothic of America before television crippled the imagination and turned people indoors and away from living out their own fantasies with dignity. Anyway, I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then.
topic: Summer, War, Dark, Darkening, Shining Out
