Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan
Richard Gary Brautiganwas an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His work often employs black comedy, parody, and satire. He is best known for his 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 January 1935
CountryUnited States of America
white america light
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.
suicide night light
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.
technology world neurosis
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.
nice hands making-love
We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.
sea fishing rivers
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.
summer war dark
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 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.
fossils doe language
Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.
house rooms ghost
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.
heart said nobody-knows
The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said
new-orleans firsts sixteen
He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
bees used stomach
The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.
trying locks have-faith
It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.
numbers way needs
"I count a lot of things that there's no need to count," Cameron said. "Just because that's the way I am. But I count all the things that need to be counted."
heart blood civilization
...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed.