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1 " all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds. "
― Richard Brautigan
2 " I’ll affect you slowlyas if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants.It won’t rain. "
― Richard Brautigan , Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
3 " Hinged to forgetfulness like a door,she slowly closed out of sight,and she was the woman I loved,but too many times she slept likea mechanical deer in my caresses,and I ached in the metal silenceof her dreams. "
― Richard Brautigan , Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt
4 " Our names were made for us in another century. "
5 " Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore. "
― Richard Brautigan , Dreaming of Babylon
6 " 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. "
― Richard Brautigan , A Confederate General from Big Sur / Dreaming of Babylon / The Hawkline Monster
7 " Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness. "
― Richard Brautigan , In Watermelon Sugar
8 " I have emotions that are like newspapers that read themselves.I go for days at a time trapped in the want ads.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 , Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970
9 " For fear you will be aloneyou do so many thingsthat aren’t you at all. "
10 " Messy, isn't it? "
11 " Moonlight drifts from overA hundred thousand milesTo fall upon a cemeteryIt reads a hundred epitaphsAnd then smiles at a nest ofBaby owls "
12 " Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming home "
13 " The two evening stars were now shining side by side. The smaller one had moved over to the big one. They were very close now, almost touching, and then they went together and become one very large star.I don't know if things like that are fair or not. "
14 " There was something dead in my heart.I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse.I had a dead mouse in my heart. "
― Richard Brautigan , Tokyo-Montana Express
15 " My sperm came out into the water, unaccustomed to the light, and instantly it became a misty, stringy kind of thing and swirled out like a falling star, and I saw a dead fish come forward and float into my sperm, bending it in the middle. "
― Richard Brautigan , Trout Fishing in America
16 " 30 cents, two transfers, loveThinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone. "
17 " She had a voice that made Pearl Harbor seem like a lullaby. "
18 " the sweet juices of your mouthare like castles bathed in honey.i've never had it done so gently before.you have put a circle of castlesaround my penis and you swirl themlike sunlight on the wings of birds. "
― Richard Brautigan , Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar
19 " We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love. "
20 " I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end. "
