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1. "Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming home" ~ Richard Brautigan
2. "Finding is losing something else.I think about, perhaps even mourn,what I lost to find this" ~ Richard Brautigan
3. "Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4.1.Get enough food to eat,and eat it.2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,and sleep there.3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noiseuntil you arrive at the silence of yourself,and listen to it.4." ~ Richard Brautigan
4. "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
5. "I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant." ~ Richard Brautigan
6. "In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar." ~ Richard Brautigan
7. "I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep." ~ Richard Brautigan
8. "Boo, ForeverSpinning like a ghoston the bottom of a top,I'm haunted by allthe space that Iwill live withoutyou." ~ Richard Brautigan
9. "I saw thousands of pumpkins last nightcome floating in on the tide,bumping up against the rocks androlling up on the beaches;it must be Halloween in the sea" ~ Richard Brautigan
10. "My Name"I guess you are kind of curious as to who I am, but I am one of those who do not have a regular name. My name depends on you. Just call me whatever is in your mind.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.Perhaps it was raining very hard.That is my name.Or somebody wanted you to do something. You did it. Then they told you what you did was wrong—"Sorry for the mistake,"—and you had to do something else.That is my name.Perhaps it was a game you played when you were a child or something that came idly into your mind when you were old and sitting in a chair near the window.That is my name.Or you walked someplace. There were flowers all around.That is my name.Perhaps you stared into a river. There as something near you who loved you. They were about to touch you. You could feel this before it happened. Then it happened.That is my name." ~ Richard Brautigan
11. "My God, ma'am, you're so pretty I'd walk ten miles barefooted on a freezing morning to stand in your shit." ~ Richard Brautigan
12. "Your Catfish FriendIf I were to live my lifein catfish formsin scaffolds of skin and whiskersat the bottom of a pondand you were to come by one eveningwhen the moon was shiningdown into my dark homeand stand there at the edge of my affectionand think, "It's beautifulhere by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,"I'd love you and be your catfishfriend and drive such lonelythoughts from your mindand suddenly you would be at peace,and ask yourself, "I wonderif there are any catfishin this pond? It seems likea perfect place for them." ~ Richard Brautigan
13. "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
14. "It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult." ~ Richard Brautigan
15. "I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come." ~ Richard Brautigan
16. "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
17. "I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative." ~ Richard Brautigan
18. "The old woman had an old dog, but he hardly counted any more. He was so old that he looked like a stuffed dog. Once I took him for a walk down to the store. It was just like taking a stuffed dog for a walk. I tied him up to a stuffed fire hydrant and he pissed on it, but it was only stuffed piss." ~ Richard Brautigan
19. "I have emotions?that are like newspapers that?read themselves.I go for days at a time?trapped in the want ads.I feel as if I am an ad?for the sale of a haunted house:18 rooms?$37,000?I'm yours?ghosts and all." ~ Richard Brautigan
20. "The truck looked just like a Civil War truck if they'd had trucks back in those times. But the truck ran, even though it didn't have a gas tank.There was an empty fifty-gallon gasoline drum on the bed of the truck with a smaller gasoline can on top of it, and there was a syphon leading from that can to the fuel line.It worked like this. Lee Mellon drove and I stayed on the back of the truck and made sure everything went all right with the syphon, that it didn't get knocked out of kilter by the motion of the truck.We looked kind of funny going down the highway. I'd never had the heart to ask Lee Mellon what happened to the gas tank. I figured it was best not to know." ~ Richard Brautigan
21. "When he said this, it was not a form of criticism. It was just a simple observation that led to another bite from the movie on his plate called The Old Man and the Stew." ~ Richard Brautigan
22. "The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering what had happened between them or just tumbling head-over-heels down into romantic oblivion where the image of a remembered kiss provokes bottomless despair and makes death seem like the right idea.He experienced the basics of love ended." ~ Richard Brautigan
23. "The only thing he likes better than a nice juicy homicide is a sirloin steak smothered with onions." ~ Richard Brautigan
24. "If I Should Die Before You DoWhenyou wake upfrom death,you will find yourselfin my arms,andI will bekissing you,and I will be crying." ~ Richard Brautigan
25. "He died on his return to New York. He died on the gangplank, just a few feet away from America. He didn't quite make it. His hat did though. It rolled off his head and down the gang-plank and landed, plop, on America. Poor devil. I heard it was his heart, but the way the Chinese dentist described the business, it could have been his teeth." ~ Richard Brautigan
26. "Voluntary QuicksandI read the Chronicle this morningas if I were stepping into voluntaryquicksandand watched the news go over my shoeswith forty-four more days of spring.Kent StateAmericaMay 7, 1970" ~ Richard Brautigan
27. "She was a perfect freeway Mona Lisa." ~ Richard Brautigan
28. "I'll affect you slowlyas if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants.It won't rain." ~ Richard Brautigan
29. "She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby." ~ Richard Brautigan
30. "We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love." ~ Richard Brautigan
31. "Hinged to forgetfulnesslike a door,she slowly closed out ofsight,and she was the woman I loved,but too many times she slept likea mechanical deer in my caresses,and I ached in the metal silenceof her dreams." ~ Richard Brautigan
32. "Kadinlar neden buna benzer bedenleri olmasini isterler bir türlü anlamiyorum. Ne kadar acayip görünüyor, onlar da kalkip böyle bir bedene sahip olmak için deli gibi ugrasiyorlar, ne pahasina olursa olsun, diyetlere, ameliyatlara, ignelere, açik saçik iç çamasirlariyla bu lanet olasi seylerden birini elde etmek için çabaliyorlar ve her seyi deneyip de basarili olamazlarsa sahtesini yapiyor o ahmak sürtükler. Pekala, burada bedava bir tane var. Gelin de alin pis orospular. Neyin içine girdiklerini bilmiyorlar, belki bundan hoslaniyorlar. Belki de bu bedenleri paranin çarkini döndürmek için kullanan kadinlar gibi hepsi birer pislik: Film yildizlari, mankenler, orospular." ~ Richard Brautigan
33. "Messy, isn't it?" ~ Richard Brautigan
34. "God-forsaken is beautiful, too." ~ Richard Brautigan
35. "In a Cafe"I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover." ~ Richard Brautigan
36. "There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds." ~ Richard Brautigan
37. "The thought of her handstouching his hairmakes me want to vomit." ~ Richard Brautigan
38. "Alas, Measured Perfectly"Saturday, August 25, 1888. 5:20 P.M.is the name of a photograph of twoold women in a front yard, besidea white house. One of the women issitting in a chair with a dog in herlap. The other woman is looking atsome flowers. Perhaps the women arehappy, but then it is Saturday, August25, 1888. 5:21 P.M., and all over." ~ Richard Brautigan
39. "It was not an outhouse resting upon the imagination. It was reality." ~ Richard Brautigan
40. "The voyage from San Francisco to Hawaii had been the most terrifying experience Greer and Cameron had ever gone through, even more terrible than the time they shot a deputy sheriff in Idaho ten times and he wouldn't die and Greer finallyhad to say to the deputy sheriff,"Please die because we don't want toshoot you again". And the deputy sheriff had said, "Ok, I'll die, but don't shoot me again"."We won't shoot you again", Cameron had said."Ok, I'm dead", and he was." ~ Richard Brautigan
41. "I like to think (it has to be!)of a cybernetic ecologywhere we are free of our laborsand joined back to nature,returned to our mammalbrothers and sisters,and all watched overby machines of loving grace." ~ Richard Brautigan
42. "There was a fine thing about that trout. I only wish I could have made a death mask of him. Not of his body though, but of his energy. I don't know if anyone would have understood his body. I put it in my creel." ~ Richard Brautigan
43. "The flies were teaching an advanced seminar in philosophy as they crawled up the crack of my ass" ~ Richard Brautigan
44. "Yukiko rolled over.That plain, that simple.Her body was small in its moving.And her hair followed, dreaming her as she moved.A cat, her cat, in bed with her was awakened by her moving, and watched her turn slowly over in bed. When she stopped moving, the cat went back to sleep.It was a black cat and could have been a suburb of her hair." ~ Richard Brautigan
45. "We stepped outside rather hurriedly and down the street to anonymous sanctuary among the buildings of San Francisco."Promise me till your dying day, you'll believe that a Mellon was a Confederate general. It's the truth. That God-damn book lies! There was a Confederate general in my family!""I promise," I said and it was a promise that was kept." ~ Richard Brautigan
46. "Vida was sound asleep when I went back to my room. I turned on the light and it woke her up. She was blinking and her face had that soft marble quality to it that beautiful women have when they are suddenly awakened and are not quite ready for it yet. "What's happening?" she said. "It's another book," she replied, answering her own question. "Yes," I said. "What's it about?" she said automatically like a gentle human phonograph. "It's about growing flowers in hotel rooms." ~ Richard Brautigan
47. "Aç olmadigim halde menüye baktim. bir menüye bakmayali yillar olmustu. Menü bana günaydin dedi, ben de ona günaydin diyerek karsilik verdim. Hayatimizi menülerle konusarak geçirebiliriz dogrusu." ~ Richard Brautigan
48. "The old drunk told me about trout fishing. When he could talk, he had a way of describing trout as if they were a precious and intelligent metal." ~ Richard Brautigan
49. "Then they decided that the fleas that lived on Siamese cats would probably be more intelligent than the fleas that lived on just ordinary alley cats. It only made sense that drinking intelligent blood would make intelligent fleas." ~ Richard Brautigan
50. "Someday Time will die, and Love will bury it" ~ Richard Brautigan
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I'm a good girl. I'm a nice girl. I'm a straight-A, strait-laced, good daughter, good career girl, and I never stole anybody's boyfriend and I never ran out on a girlfriend, and I put up with my parents' shit and brother's shit and I'm not a girl anyhow, I'm over forty fucking years old, and I'm good at my job and I'm great with kids and I held my mother's hand when she died,after four years of holding her hand while she was dying, and I speak to my father ever day on the telephone -- every day, mind you, and what kind of weather do you have on your side of the river, because here it's pretty gray and a big muggy too? It was supposed to say "Great Artist" on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say "Such a good teacher/daughter/friend" instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is FUCK YOU ALL."
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