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21 " I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant. "
― Richard Brautigan , In Watermelon Sugar
22 " Money is sad shit "
― Richard Brautigan , The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing
23 " In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar. "
24 " 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 , The Abortion
25 " He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it. "
― Richard Brautigan , Trout Fishing in America
26 " 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. "
27 " He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans. "
28 " 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. "
― Richard Brautigan , So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
29 " 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 "
30 " ...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed. "
― Richard Brautigan , Tokyo-Montana Express
31 " God-forsaken is beautiful, too. "
― Richard Brautigan , Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
32 " This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That’s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow. "
― Richard Brautigan , A Confederate General from Big Sur
33 " The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it. "
34 " The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes. "
35 " There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't. "
36 " A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person out of work. The day was scrubbed clean by the desert air. The sky was blue. It was the blue of human eyes, waiting for something to happen. There was no reason for a sombrero to fall out of the sky. No airplane or helicopter was passing overhead and it was not a religious holiday. "
― Richard Brautigan , Sombrero Fallout
37 " 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. "
38 " In watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar. I will tell you about it because I am here and you are distant. "
39 " 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. "
40 " There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds. "