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85 Richard Brautigan Quotes That Will Leave You Enthralled

Famous As: Writer, Poet, Novelist
Born On: 1935
Died On: 1984
Born In: Tacoma
Died At Age: 49
Richard Brautigan was a prolific American short-story writer, novelist and poet. His thoughts and works often reflected satire, black comedy, magic realism and parody. Some of his best-known works include, ‘In Watermelon Sugar,’ ‘A Confederate General from Big Sur,’ ‘Trout Fishing in America,’ ‘Willard and His Bowling,’ amongst others. Until 1982 he published a number of poetry and prose collection. In 1984 he committed suicide after suffering from years of despair as mentioned by sources. He influenced a number of writers and poets including, ‘Sarah Hall,’ ‘Haruki Muraami,’ ‘Christopher Moore’ and ‘W.P Kinsella.’ Following is a corpus that includes the most sought-after quotations and sayings by Richard Brautigan. Take a look at the widely quoted collection of thoughts and quotes by Richard Brautigan.
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Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

Richard Brautigan
Love Poem
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It's so nice
to wake up in the morning
all alone
and not have to tell somebody
you love them
when you don't love them
any more.

Love Poem ـــــــــ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.

Richard Brautigan
All of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.

All of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.

Richard Brautigan
I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Richard Brautigan
Finding is losing something else.
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

Richard Brautigan
I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Richard Brautigan
I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

Richard Brautigan
I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

Richard Brautigan
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.

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
Money is sad shit

Money is sad shit

Richard Brautigan
In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

Richard Brautigan
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?

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
I’ll affect you slowly
as if you were having a picnic in a dream. 
There will be no ants.
It won’t rain.

I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.

Richard Brautigan
I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

Richard Brautigan
If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago:
Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer.
That is my name.

If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.

Richard Brautigan
Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream.
I'm not, she said.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Richard Brautigan
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.

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
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.

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
My God, ma'am, you're so pretty I'd walk ten miles barefooted on a freezing morning to stand in your shit.

My God, ma'am, you're so pretty I'd walk ten miles barefooted on a freezing morning to stand in your shit.

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

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
One day
Time will die
And love will bury it

One day Time will die And love will bury it

Richard Brautigan
He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

Richard Brautigan
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.

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.

Richard Brautigan
All girls should have a poem
written for them even if
we have to turn this God-damn world
upside down to do it.

All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this God-damn world upside down to do it.

Richard Brautigan
I’m haunted by all
 the space that I
 will live without
 you.

I’m haunted by all the space that I will live without you.

Richard Brautigan
I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.

I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.

Richard Brautigan
It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

Richard Brautigan
If you will die for me,
I will die for you
and our graves will be like two lovers washing
their clothes together
in a laundromat
If you will bring the soap
I will bring the bleach.

If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach.

Richard Brautigan
We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.

We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.

Richard Brautigan
Her sunny side was always up.

Her sunny side was always up.

Richard Brautigan