Richard Brautigan - quotes
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
About author
 Born on January 30th, 1935 in Tacoma, Washington, little is known of his childhood but it is rumored it was a troubled one. Somewhere around 1955-1958, Richard moved to San Francisco, California and became involved in the Beat Movement. In 1959, Lay the Marble Tea was published (his first published book?). This was a collection of 24 poems. In the late 1960's, Brautigan began to gain popularity and during this time, published several of his most popular works (Trout Fishing in America, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, In Watermelon Sugar, etc.). During 1966-67, he served as the poet-in-residence at California Institute of Te... |
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All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.
I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.
It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.
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?
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.
