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054759b	It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.			Richard Brautigan
62685f8	I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there... I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then...			Richard Brautigan
6ce0291	We stepped outside rather hurriedly and down the street to anonymous sanctuary among the buildings of San Francisco. "Promise me till your dying day, you'll believe that a Mellon was a Confederate general. It's the truth. That God-damn book lies! There was a Confederate general in my family!" "I promise," I said and it was a promise that was kept."			Richard Brautigan
a4c7905	The Forgotten Works just go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. You get the picture. It's a big place, much bigger than we are.			Richard Brautigan
2629706	The Return of the Rivers All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. It is raining today in the mountains. It is a warm green rain with love in its pockets for spring is here, and does not dream of death. Birds happen music like clocks ticking heaves in a land where children love spiders, and let them sleep in their hair. A slow rain sizzles on the river li..			Richard Brautigan
ffa0ddb	The river loved to tell everybody (everybody being the sky, the wind, the few trees that grew around there, birds, deer and even the stars if you can believe that) what a great river it was. "I come roaring from the earth and return roaring to the earth. I am the master of my waters. I am the mother and father of myself. I don't need a single drop of rain. Look at my smooth strong white muscles. I am my own future!"		natural-beauty rivers river	Richard Brautigan
7cdbc4b	I read the note and it did not please me and I threw it away, so not even time could find it.			Richard Brautigan
ede1831	She had a beautiful laugh which was like rain water pouring over daffodils made from silver.		rain silver laugh	Richard Brautigan
9f3fc72	30 cents, two transfers, love Thinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering		poetry love longing	Richard Brautigan
73a81f0	I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon.		trout	Richard Brautigan
363a5f6	Now it was close to sunset and the earth was beginning to cool off in the manner of eternity and office girls were returning like penguins from Montgomery Street.		sunset	Richard Brautigan
a0b4e32	After he graduated from college, he went to Paris and became an Existentialist. He had a photograph taken of Existentialism and himself sitting at a sidewalk cafe. Pard was wearing a beard and he looked as if he had a huge soul, with barely enough room in his body to contain it.			Richard Brautigan
a375eca	Moonlight drifts from over A hundred thousand miles To fall upon a cemetery It reads a hundred epitaphs			Richard Brautigan
bbc3d3f	He used sweet wine in place of life because he didn't have any more life to use.			Richard Brautigan
3616a30	Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars.			Richard Brautigan
437a83e	I always wanted to write a book that ended with the word Mayonnaise.			Richard Brautigan
5a81b8f	Punitive ghosts like steam-driven tennis courts haunt the apples in my nonexistent orchard. I remember when there were just worms out there and they danced in moonlit cores on warm September nights.			Richard Brautigan
d03df03	Once, while cleaning the trout before I went home in the almost night, I had a vision of going over to the poor graveyard and gathering up grass and fruit jars and tin cans and markers and wilted flowers and bugs and weeds and clods and going home and putting a hook in the vise and tying a fly with all that stuff and then going outside and casting it up into the sky, watching it float over clouds and then into the evening star. (from Trout ..			Richard Brautigan
caa394f	Toi ia pogledna v ochite. Te biakha tesni cherni vseleni, izp'lneni s priblizhavashcha mekota.			Richard Brautigan
e7d0566	Kogato otkopcha shnolata, kosata i plisna nazad kato neprogledna noshch i udavi v mrak vrata i.			Richard Brautigan
cbd97fd	Dumite izliazokha ot ustata mu uzhasno sukhi. Vse edno ti prikazvashe pustiniata Sakhara... - Sb'rkal s'm adresa - sakharosa toi.			Richard Brautigan
1e83500	The truck looked just like a Civil War truck if they'd had trucks back in those times. But the truck ran, even though it didn't have a gas tank. There was an empty fifty-gallon gasoline drum on the bed of the truck with a smaller gasoline can on top of it, and there was a syphon leading from that can to the fuel line. It worked like this. Lee Mellon drove and I stayed on the back of the truck and made sure everything went all right with the..			Richard Brautigan
e6b5b9c	I guess some people lived like Reader's Digest, but I hadn't met any and at that time it seemed doubtful that I ever would			Richard Brautigan
648a90a	The girl was very pretty and her body was like a clear mountain river of skin and muscle flowing over rocks of bone and hidden nerves.		pretty-girls muscle river skin	Richard Brautigan
83898bc	He looked as if he'd got a lot of pleasure out of going ten rounds with your grandmother and making sure she went the whole distance.		noir	Richard Brautigan
41d33bc	Congratulations," I said. "It's so wonderful to write a book." "I walked all the way here," she said. "I started at midnight. I would have gotten here sooner if I weren't so old." "Where do you live?" I said. "The Kit Carson Hotel," she said. "And I've written a book." Then she handed it proudly to me as if it were the most precious thing in the world. And it was. It was a loose-leaf notebook of the type that you find everywhere in America...			Richard Brautigan
936eca7	Vida was sound asleep when I went back to my room. I turned on the light and it woke her up. She was blinking and her face had that soft marble quality to it that beautiful women have when they are suddenly awakened and are not quite ready for it yet. "What's happening?" she said. "It's another book," she replied, answering her own question. "Yes," I said. "What's it about?" she said automatically like a gentle human phonograph. "It's about..			Richard Brautigan
7cf7e8a	The old drunk told me about trout fishing. When he could talk, he had a way of describing trout as if they were a precious and intelligent metal.			Richard Brautigan
d9de69a	I think my mind is going. It is changing into a cranial junkyard. I have a huge pile of rusty tin cans the size of Mount Everest and about a million old cars that are going nowhere but between my ears.			Richard Brautigan
77d783c	It's all right," she said. "It's all right." That was really a very nice sound. There should be a bird that does that: that sings when you are impotent."			Richard Brautigan
b070f12	One spring afternoon as a child in the strange town of Portland, I walked down to a different street corner, and saw a row of old houses, huddled together like seals on a rock.			Richard Brautigan
33e3027	Then they decided that the fleas that lived on Siamese cats would probably be more intelligent than the fleas that lived on just ordinary alley cats. It only made sense that drinking intelligent blood would make intelligent fleas.			Richard Brautigan
7de42fb	Ac olmadigim halde menuye baktim. bir menuye bakmayali yillar olmustu. Menu bana gunaydin dedi, ben de ona gunaydin diyerek karsilik verdim. Hayatimizi menulerle konusarak gecirebiliriz dogrusu.		günaydın menü	Richard Brautigan
f220f3e	Kadinlar neden buna benzer bedenleri olmasini isterler bir turlu anlamiyorum. Ne kadar acayip gorunuyor, onlar da kalkip boyle bir bedene sahip olmak icin deli gibi ugrasiyorlar, ne pahasina olursa olsun, diyetlere, ameliyatlara, ignelere, acik sacik ic camasirlariyla bu lanet olasi seylerden birini elde etmek icin cabaliyorlar ve her seyi deneyip de basarili olamazlarsa sahtesini yapiyor o ahmak surtukler. Pekala, burada bedava bir tane va..		beden sürtük vida	Richard Brautigan
729f5ba	Voluntary Quicksand I read the Chronicle this morning as if I were stepping into voluntary quicksand and watched the news go over my shoes with forty-four more days of spring. Kent State America May 7, 1970		ohio	Richard Brautigan
3be0516	Everything smelled of sheep. The dandelions were suddenly more sheep than flower, each petal reflecting wool and the sound of a bell ringing off the yellow. But the thing that smelled the most like sheep, was the very sun itself. When the sun went behind a cloud, the smell of the sheep decreased, like standing on some old guy's hearing aid, and when the sun came back again, the smell of the sheep was loud, like a clap of thunder inside a co..			Richard Brautigan
f90863b	Predi da izliaza, proverikh da ne bi da s'm zabravil neshcho. Razbira se, che ne biakh. Tolkova malko neshcha pritezhavakh na tozi sviat, che kakvo, po diavolite, da zabravia?			Richard Brautigan
5fb7597	Iskam da otkradnete edin trup ot morgata. Drugo ne kaza... - Gotovo - kazakh. Ako sumata e dostat'chno interesna, utre shche ostavia na praga ti i trupa na Eibrakham Link'ln zaedno s's sutreshniia vestnik. Tochno tova iskashe da chue tia. - Kak vi zvuchi khiliada dolara? - popita me damata. - Za khiliada dolara - kazakh - tsialo grobishche shche ti dom'kna.			Richard Brautigan
176275a	people need a little loving and, God, sometimes it's sad all the shit they have to go through to find some.			Richard Brautigan
695b1ce	We're just like you,' the other tiger said. 'We speak the same language you do. We think the same thought. But we're tigers.' 'You could help me with arithmetic,' I said. 'What's that?' one of the tigers said. 'My arithmetic.' 'Oh, your arithmetic.' 'Yeah.' 'What do you want to know?' one of the tigers said. 'What's nine times nine?' 'Eighty-one,' a tiger said. 'What's eight times eight?' 'Fifty-six,' a tiger said. I asked them half of doze..			Richard Brautigan
3df0e59	Sanirim kim oldugumu merak edip duruyorsun, ama surekli bir adi olmayanlardanim. Adim sana bagli. Aklindan ne gecerse bana oyle seslen. Cok eskiden olmus bir sey dusunuyorsan; diyelim biri sana bir soru sordu, sen de yanitini bilmiyordun. Benim adim bu. Belki de bardaktan bosanir gibi yagmur yagiyor. Benim adim bu. Ya da biri senden bir sey yapmani istedi. Istedgini yaptin. Gelgelelim yaptiginin yanlis bir sey oldugunu soylediler-"bagisla..		yky richard-brautigan	Richard Brautigan
813f2f3	He died on his return to New York. He died on the gangplank, just a few feet away from America. He didn't quite make it. His hat did though. It rolled off his head and down the gang-plank and landed, plop, on America. Poor devil. I heard it was his heart, but the way the Chinese dentist described the business, it could have been his teeth.			Richard Brautigan
a64c218	He looked ninety years old for thirty years and then he got the notion that he would die, and did so.		old-man	Richard Brautigan
4414d64	We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink.		blinking	Richard Brautigan

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