So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“She had a mind like a gray library filled with gas-leak death stories.”
― Richard Brautigan, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

“: “So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away is an American tragedy that takes place in the 1940’s. It remembers the independence and dignity of a small group of people whose life-style was already doomed, even as they lived it, thinking that it would go on forever. The first television antenna on an American house was their tombstone.”
― Richard Brautigan, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away