Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in Am...
A source page for quotes linked to Richard Brautigan.
“Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming home”
“She had a beautiful laugh which was like rain water pouring over daffodils made from silver.”
“Any thought that I have right now isn't worth a shit because I'm totally fucked up.”
“I was a child, then, though now I look like somebody else.”
“She had a voice that made Pearl Harbor seem like a lullaby.”
“USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE. MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED.”
“I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon.”
“The fish was a twelve-inch rainbow trout with a huge hump on its back. A hunchback trout.”
“You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed.”
“Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.”
“The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.”
“It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.”
“In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.”
“I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.”
“Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this”
“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.”
“It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.”
“Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.”