Richard Brautigan Quotes

• Our names were made for us in another century.

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• They used language concentrating emotion, detail and image until they arrived at a form of dew-like steel.

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• Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork.

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• If you get hung up on everybody else’s hangups, then the whole world’s going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

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• The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

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

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• Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore.

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

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• I don’t want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

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  Tags in Women, Educated, Daughter

• 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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  Tags in Waiting, Come

• I’ll think about things for thirty or forty years before I’ll write it.

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• I’m in a constant process of thinking about things.

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

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  Tags in Simple, Strange, Become

• Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there’s nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

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  Tags in Nothing, Anything, Wrong

Richard Brautigan (14)

Birth:	30th January, 1935
Death:	14th September, 1984
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Poet, Writer

About

Richard Gary Brautigan was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His work often employs black comedy, parody, and satire. He is best known for his 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America.

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