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Richard Brautigan was an influential American novelist born on January 30, 1935, and died on September 14, 1984. Known for his unique literary style and profound depiction of the natural environment, he is considered one of the key figures of the Beat Generation and the Post-Beat Generation.

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Famous Richard Brautigan Quotes

“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.”

Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Long Names Answers Happened Long Time Long Time Ago

Book:Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar

Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar

“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?”

Ifs Space Huge Perfection Empty Lovely Holes Closest Astronomers Anything Goes

Author:Richard Brautigan

“Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,” I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at peace, and ask yourself, “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.”

Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

“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.”

Ifs World Whole Technology Huge Whole World Hung Neurosis Hang Ups Gallows

Author: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.”

Ifs Feels House Rooms Ghost Ads Haunted Houses

Author: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.”

Ifs Two Together Dies Lovers Clothes Graves Soap Washing Bleach Two Lovers Laundromats

Author: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.”

Ifs Dream Rain Ants Picnics

Author:Richard Brautigan

“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.”

Ifs Men Birth Lovers Photograph Bread Folds Certificates Cafes Folding Birth Certificate

Book:Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

“There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.”

Ifs House Wind Bother Spiders Howl Second Thoughts Living Comfortably

Author:Richard Brautigan

“I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.”

Ifs Seems Perfect Wonder Ponds Catfish

Book:Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

“All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this goddamn world upside down to do it.”

Ifs World Should Turns Girl Written Should Have Upside Down World Upside Down

Book:C'est tout ce que j'ai à déclarer: Brautigan-Œuvres poétiques complètes

Source: C'est tout ce que j'ai à déclarer: Brautigan-Œuvres poétiques complètes