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Richard Brautigan
12 quotes
“A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, "It makes me want to write poetry.”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“if a girl likes me a lot and starts getting real nervous and suddenly begins asking me funny questions and looks sad if I give the wrong answers and she says things like, "Do you think it's going to rain?" and I say, "It beats me," and she says, "Oh," and looks a little sad at the clear blue California sky, I think: Thank God, it's you, baby, this time Instead of me.”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Forsaken, fucking in the cold, eating each other, lost runny noses, complaining all the time like so many people that we know”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything smelled of sheep. The dandelions were suddenly more sheep than flower, each petal reflecting wool and the sound of a bell ringing off the yellow. But the thing that smelled the most like sheep, was the sun itself. When the sun went behind a cloud, the smell of sheep decreased, like standing on some old guy's hearing aid, and when the sun came back again, the smell of the sheep was loud, like a clap of thunder inside a cup of coffee.”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... 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.”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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?”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source