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
emotional silence intellectual
Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.
horse knights suits-of-armor
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.
trout excuse said
Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
christmas waiting forever
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
next seduction spirit
There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.
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.
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.
bees used stomach
The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.
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."