Richard Brautigan

Writer

1935-01-30

Quotes by Richard Brautigan

• Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.

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• We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.

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• The Beautiful PoemI go to bed in Los Angeles thinking about you.Pissing a few moments ago I looked down at my penisaffectionately.Knowing it has been inside you twice today makes mefeel beautiful.

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• Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore.

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• Our names were made for us in another century.

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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 likea mechanical deer in my caresses,and I ached in the metal silenceof her dreams.

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• I'll affect you slowlyas if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants.It won't rain.

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• all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.

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• The Beautiful PoemI go to bed in Los Angeles thinking about you.Pissing a few moments ago I looked down at my penisaffectionately.Knowing it has been inside you twice today makes mefeel beautiful.

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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 likea mechanical deer in my caresses,and I ached in the metal silenceof her dreams.

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• I'll affect you slowlyas if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants.It won't rain.

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• Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.

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• We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.

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• Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore.

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• all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.

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• Our names were made for us in another century.

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• I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

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