Richard Brautigan Short Quotes

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All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

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I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

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Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.

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We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.

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I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

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It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.

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Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

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The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said

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Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

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He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

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It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

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Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

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I wonder
if there are any catfish
in this pond? It seems like
a perfect place for them.

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In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

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He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.

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You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.

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There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

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I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

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Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.

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If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

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Everybody wants to go to bed
with everybody else, they're
lined up for blocks, so I'll
go to bed with you. They won't
miss us.

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Forsaken, fucking in the cold,
eating each other, lost
runny noses,
complaining all the time
like so many
people
that we know

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The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.

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If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.

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In a Cafe" I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.

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I do not care to be esthetically tickled in a fancy theater surrounded by an audience drenched in the confident perfume of culture. I can't afford it.

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I count a lot of things that there's no need to count, Cameron said. Just because that's the way I am. But I count all the things that need to be counted.

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Thinking 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.

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Love Poem ـــــــــ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.

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... the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America.

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