Richard Brautigan

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Biography

Richard Gary Brautigan was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. He wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and ten books of poetry.

"all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds."

Richard Brautigan

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

Richard Brautigan

"Hinged to forgetfulness like a door,she slowly closed out of sight,and she was the woman I loved,but too many times she slept likea mechanical deer in my caresses,and I ached in the metal silenceof her dreams."

Richard Brautigan

"Forsaken, fucking in the cold, eating each other, lost runny noses, complaining all the time like so many people that we know"

Richard Brautigan

"Thinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone."

Richard Brautigan

"Everybody wants to go to bed with everybody else, they're lined up for blocks, so I'll go to bed with you. They won't miss us."

Richard Brautigan

"I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come."

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?"

Richard Brautigan

"Our names were made for us in another century."

Richard Brautigan

"For fear you will be aloneyou do so many thingsthat aren’t you at all."

Richard Brautigan

"30 cents, two transfers, loveThinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone."

Richard Brautigan

"Moonlight drifts from overA hundred thousand milesTo fall upon a cemeteryIt reads a hundred epitaphsAnd then smiles at a nest ofBaby owls"

Richard Brautigan