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41 " Je reste des heures entières debout au même endroit, presque sans bouger (j’ai même vu le vent s’arrêter dans ma main) "
― Richard Brautigan , In Watermelon Sugar
42 " 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 , The Abortion
43 " 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. "
― Richard Brautigan , Tokyo-Montana Express
44 " The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said "
45 " I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria. "
46 " She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby. "
― Richard Brautigan , Dreaming of Babylon
47 " It's an old song that's been played on all the jukeboxes in America. The song has been around so long that it's been recorded on the very dust of America and it has settled on everything and changed chairs and cars and toys and lamps and windows into billions of phonographs to play that song back into the ear of our broken heart. "
― Richard Brautigan , Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970
48 " The flies were teaching an advanced seminar in philosophy as they crawled up the crack of my ass "
― Richard Brautigan , A Confederate General from Big Sur
49 " Warm fog swirled in the canyon as we gradually descended. A hundred feet in front of us everything was lost in the fog and a hundred feet behind us everything was lost in the fog. We were walking in a capsule between amnesias. "
50 " You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed. "
― Richard Brautigan , Trout Fishing in America
51 " In Watermelon Sugar deeds were done "
52 " I guess the last remaining question is: What about the sombrero? It's still there, lying in the street but its temperature had returned to -24 degrees and fortunately for America it stayed there. Millions of tourists have walked all around it but not one of them has seen it, though it is in plain sight. How can you miss a very cold white sombrero lying in the Main Street of a town? In other words: There is more to life than meets the eye. "
― Richard Brautigan , Sombrero Fallout
53 " There was a fine thing about that trout. I only wish I could have made a death mask of him. Not of his body though, but of his energy. I don't know if anyone would have understood his body. I put it in my creel. "
― Richard Brautigan , Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar
54 " There wasn't a single thing in there that reminded me of my existence. "
― Richard Brautigan , So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
55 " When he said this, it was not a form of criticism. It was just a simple observation that led to another bite from the movie on his plate called The Old Man and the Stew. "
56 " The only thing he likes better than a nice juicy homicide is a sirloin steak smothered with onions. "
57 " I was too young and naive then to link up the meaning of those ridiculingly defunct tennis shoes that I was forced to wear with the reality that we were on Welfare and Welfare was not designed to provide a child with any pride in its existence. "
58 " It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up. "
59 " I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there… 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… "
60 " The Forgotten Works just go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. You get the picture. It's a big place, much bigger than we are. "