Finding is losing something else.
--Richard Brautigan
God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
--Richard Brautigan
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
--Richard Brautigan
I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.
--Richard Brautigan
If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
--Richard Brautigan
It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.
--Richard Brautigan
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
It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.
--Richard Brautigan
Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.
--Richard Brautigan
My teachers could have easily ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.
--Richard Brautigan
Our names were made for us in another century.
--Richard Brautigan
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
Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourselfand listen to it.
--Richard Brautigan
Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.
--Richard Brautigan
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
There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
--Richard Brautigan
There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.
--Richard Brautigan
There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.
--Richard Brautigan
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