Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. Richard Brautigan More Quotes by Richard Brautigan More Quotes From Richard Brautigan I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea Richard Brautigan halloween night beach 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 lovely space perfection Our names were made for us in another century. Richard Brautigan century names made 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 ghost house rooms The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you. Richard Brautigan pills people thinking I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria. Richard Brautigan play teacher school 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 kissing winning love 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. Richard Brautigan light suicide night For the rest of my life I'll be thinking about that hamburger. I'll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn't like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers. Richard Brautigan kids hands thinking 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. Richard Brautigan fishing sea rivers The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls. Richard Brautigan hate views people 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 cafes bread men We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love. Richard Brautigan making-love nice hands The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes. Richard Brautigan storm two fall I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it. Richard Brautigan writing years thinking It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up. Richard Brautigan locks have-faith trying The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said Richard Brautigan nobody-knows said heart We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST. Richard Brautigan parades might moving Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you. Richard Brautigan spinning space forever Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written. Richard Brautigan fossils language doe
