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So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away QUOTES

So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " 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

3 " 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. "

― Richard Brautigan , So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

4 " 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. "

― Richard Brautigan , So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

5 " 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… "

― Richard Brautigan , So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

6 " I guess some people lived like Reader's Digest, but I hadn't met any and at that time it seemed doubtful that I ever would "

― Richard Brautigan , So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away