Richard Brautigan Quotes
1935–1984 United States
- United States
- Novelists
- Poets
- Short story writers
Also known as: Brautigan, Richard
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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?
There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
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.
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.
Forsaken, fucking in the cold,
eating each other, lost
runny noses,
complaining all the time
like so many
people
that we know
... 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.
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.