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• 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

  Vocabulary, Childhood, Feelings

  Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.

  Richard Brautigan

  Teacher, School, Play

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• I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

  Richard Brautigan

  Christmas, Waiting, Forever

  Richard Brautigan (2011). “So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• 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

  Book, People, Car

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Richard Brautigan

  Thinking, Process, Constant

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• 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

  Thinking, Names, Long

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Brother, Thinking, Grace

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our names were made for us in another century.

  Richard Brautigan

  Names, Century, Made

  Richard Brautigan (2014). “A Confederate General From Big Sur”, p.64, Canongate Books

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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?

  Richard Brautigan

  Space, Perfection, Lovely

  "An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey". Book by Richard Brautigan, p.15, 2000.

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• Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,” I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at peace, and ask yourself, “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.

  Richard Brautigan

  Beautiful, Lonely, Love You

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

  Richard Brautigan

  Next, Seduction, Spirit

  Richard Brautigan (2014). “Trout Fishing in America”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept like a mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silence of her dreams.

  Richard Brautigan

  Dream, Sight, Doors

  Richard Brautigan, “Hinged To Forgetfulness Like A Door”

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• Love Poem ـــــــــ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.

  Richard Brautigan

  Morning, Nice, Wake Up

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, "Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper," and put the coin in my hand, but never came back.

  Richard Brautigan

  Hands, Coins, Pieces

  Richard Brautigan, “Trout Fishing In America”

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• I do not care to be esthetically tickled in a fancy theater surrounded by an audience drenched in the confident perfume of culture. I can't afford it.

  Richard Brautigan

  Culture, Care, Fancy

  Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said

  Richard Brautigan

  Heart, Said, Nobody Knows

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Nice, Doors, Voice

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• I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea

  Richard Brautigan

  Beach, Halloween, Night

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department.

  Richard Brautigan

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.

  Richard Brautigan

  Stars, Kids, Son

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 of America 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

  Summer, War, Dark

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• 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

  Light, White, America

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

  Richard Brautigan

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.

  Richard Brautigan

  New Orleans, Sixteen, Firsts

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.

  Richard Brautigan

  Suicide, Night, Light

  Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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