quotes by Richard Brautigan

"I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.'"
— Richard Brautigan

"Money is sad shit"
— Richard Brautigan (The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing)

"Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords."
— Richard Brautigan

"In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar."
— Richard Brautigan (In Watermelon Sugar)

"Finding is losing something else.
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this"
— Richard Brautigan (Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork)

"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."
— Richard Brautigan (Trout Fishing in America)

"all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds."
— Richard Brautigan

"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."
— Richard Brautigan (In Watermelon Sugar)

"Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words.

Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.
"
— Richard Brautigan

"Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4.

1.Get enough food to eat,
and eat it.

2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.

3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.

4."
— Richard Brautigan

"
می کوشد تیغ بزند
مردان را
که چیزی دستش را نمی گیرد
چون که او
15 % زیباتر نیست

"
— Richard Brautigan

"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)

"He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it."
— Richard Brautigan (Trout Fishing in America)

"For the rest of my life I'll be thinking about that hamburger. I'll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn't like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers..."
— Richard Brautigan

"We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST."
— Richard Brautigan

"خورشید مثل یک سکه پنجاه سنتی خیلی بزرگ بود که یک نفر نفت روش ریخته و کبریت کشیده و روشنش کرده و گفته "بیا اینو نگه دار تا من برم یه روزنامه بگیرم بیام"و سکه را کف دستم گذاشته و دیگر
برنگشته بود
(از کتاب صید قزل آلا در آمریکا)"
— Richard Brautigan

"The old woman had an old dog, but he hardly counted any more. He was so old that he looked like a stuffed dog. Once I took him for a walk down to the store. It was just like taking a stuffed dog for a walk. I tied him up to a stuffed fire hydrant and he pissed on it, but it was only stuffed piss."
— Richard Brautigan

"All of us have roles in history. Mine is clouds."
— Richard Brautigan

"Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream.
I'm not, she said."
— Richard Brautigan (Trout Fishing in America)

"Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her."
— Richard Brautigan

"We stepped outside rather hurriedly and down the street to anonymous sanctuary among the buildings of San Francisco.
"Promise me till your dying day, you'll believe that a Mellon was a Confederate general. It's the truth. That God-damn book lies! There was a Confederate general in my family!"
"I promise," I said and it was a promise that was kept."
— Richard Brautigan (A Confederate General from Big Sur/Dreaming of Babylon/The Hawkline Monster)

"Peut-être que vous étiez allongé au lit, presque sur le point de vous endormir, et vous avez ri de quelque chose, une plaisanterie toute personnelle, une bonne façon de finir la journée. C'est ça, mon nom."
— Richard Brautigan (Tokyo-Montana Express)