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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

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

Thinking Lost Findings Losing Mourn

Author: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.”

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

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

Thinking Process Constant

Author:Richard Brautigan

“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.”

Thinking Hands Kids Cry Tears Eating Sitting Cheeks Hamburgers Waitress Streaming Looking Away

Book:So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away

Source: So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away

“because you always have a clock strapped to your body, it's natural that i should think of you as the correct time: with your long blonde hair at 8:03, and your pulse-lightning breasts at 11:17, and your rose-meow smile at 5:30, i know i'm right.”

Thinking Knows Should Long Body Natural Hair Rose Your Body Clock Breasts Lightning Pulse Think Of You Blonde Blonde Hair Long Blonde Hair

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

“I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard”

Thinking Mind Hard Ruins Hiding Of My Mind My Birthday

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

“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

“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.”

People Thinking Lost Mines Disaster Versus Pills

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

“I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.”

Thinking Want Should Mother Daughter Educated My Daughter

Author:Richard Brautigan

“I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.”

Thinking Grace Brother Labor Machines Ecology Brothers And Sisters Mammals

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

“I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.”

Thinking Writing Years Thirty Forty

Author:Richard Brautigan