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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f028c8c | My sperm came out into the water, unaccustomed to the light, and instantly it became a misty, stringy kind of thing and swirled out like a falling star, and I saw a dead fish come forward and float into my sperm, bending it in the middle. | sperm water | Richard Brautigan | |
| 306ba53 | The fish was a twelve-inch rainbow trout with a huge hump on its back. A hunchback trout. | trout | Richard Brautigan | |
| 26bf2f1 | Hello, sir. Yes...Uh-huh...Yes...You say that you want to bury your aunt with a Christmas tree in her coffin? Uh-huh...She wanted it that way...I'll see what I can do for you, sir. Oh, you have the measurements of the coffin with you? Very good...We have our coffin-sized Christmas trees right over here, sir. | coffins | Richard Brautigan | |
| d75d91a | Bolinas, California, | William Hjortsberg | ||
| 1d2fb90 | Starushka dopivala poslednie kapli kofe, vytsezhivaia ikh snova i snova, khotia v chashke nichego ne bylo. Ei khotelos' ubedit'sia, chto v chashke ne zaderzhalos' ni kapli -- posledniuiu ona vypila tselykh dva raza. Fred Bul'knem. TIPOGRAFSKAIa KRASKA. Avtor - byvshii zhurnalist, vsia ego kniga nerazborchivo napisana ot ruki - slova v'iutsia vokrug butylki viski. - Vsio, - ob'iavil on, otdav mne knigu. - Dvadtsat' let. On netviordo vyshel i.. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 9a7f211 | His eyes were like the shoelaces of a harpsichord. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 6bab311 | Wood We age in darkness like wood and watch our phantoms change their clothes of shingles and boards | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 86e3e3c | It's good you're happy," she said. She said the word happy as if she were looking at it from a great distance through a telescope." -- | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 11605ab | Her hair dreamt about being very carefully combed in the morning. | hair | Richard Brautigan | |
| 5f409c8 | What we eat is funny and what we drink is even more hilarious: turkeys, Gallo port, hot dogs, watermelons, Popeyes, salmon croquettes, frappes, Christian Brothers port, orange rye bread, canteloupes, Popeyes, salads, cheese--booze, grub and Popeyes. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 5f1dcf6 | There was no logical reason why he did not have eggs in the house. It was just that he felt slightly uncomfortable when they were there. Also, he did not like to buy eggs. Something about the cartons put him off and he did not like the fact that they came in dozens. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 6875e6d | He'd had enough suffering right now to last him forever with plenty left over for others if they didn't have enough and wanted to have some more. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 4942c50 | He was so fascinated by the long single strand of black hair that he did not overflow his mind with fantasies about it, turning it into a hundred varieties of his imagination. He just sat there staring at it. Japanese hair. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| c7bd00f | The cat's purring was the motor that ran the Japanese woman's dreaming. | dreaming purring | Richard Brautigan | |
| b6364b2 | One could think of seagulls. It's really a very simple thing to do... seagulls: past, present and future passing almost like drums to the sky. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 5b5bca9 | Their future was America and three long years of searching and a process of gradual character disintegration and a slow retreat from respectability and self-pride. In three years they would become what they had always despised. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 10a8616 | those doughnuts are a lot better than having a mule kick you in the head," There was no argument there." | donuts wry-comment | Richard Brautigan | |
| add7173 | You sons-of-bitches all have bicycles!" he said, "I'll have a bicycle someday!" | Richard Brautigan | ||
| c6a5e63 | It would be convenient if one could redesign the past, change a few things here and there, like certain acts of outrageous stupidity, but if one could do that, the past would always be in motion. It would never settle down finally to days of solid marble. | regret time-travel | Richard Brautigan | |
| 968ed51 | We call everything a river here. We are that kind of people. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 6a5de41 | we expect a wine of quality to demand something from us. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| d214f16 | Benjamin Franklin wrote that he would like to be embalmed in a cask of Madeira | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 980b647 | Their tastes change not because their palates improve but because they deteriorate. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 0b23753 | Bordeaux are named after chateaux. Castles. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| c280512 | Shakespeare was an anti-Semite, | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 101d60c | When he looked back at the menu as an old man, it brought back everything; the food, the wine, the private dining room, the pride he took in being able to pay for such a dinner, the convergence of his life as a writer and his life as an oenophile, the conviviality that grew as the night continued and everyone had a little too much to drink but not enough to impair the quality of the conversation, some of which, I feel sure, was about the wi.. | food memory wine | Anne Fadiman | |
| 51593ed | wine stores should organize their bottles not by origin and varietal but by alcohol content and intensity of flavor, | Anne Fadiman | ||
| a60ce91 | I have never met a miserly wine lover. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| b4c2a54 | to take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history, | Anne Fadiman | ||
| c7f9a68 | he never had fewer than seven jobs and at one point had thirteen. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| fa576bd | He was constantly, pathologically, insanely busy. That's how he afforded the wine. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| f01f28e | in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and headlong identity realignment. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| a03291f | Bill himself did not seem to find the Hmong quite as exasperating as some of his colleagues did, perhaps because of the lessons in cultural relativism he had learned during the two years he had spent with the Peace Corps in Micronesia, and perhaps because, as he pointed out to me, the Hmong acted no stranger than his next-door neighbors in Merced, a family of white fundamentalist Christians who had smashed their television set and then danc.. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| db74538 | The same doctors who listen to Continuing Medical Education audiocassettes on their car stereos, intent on keeping up with every innovation that might improve their outcome statistics, may regard cross-cultural medicine as a form of political bamboozlement, an assault on their rationality rather than a potentially lifesaving therapy. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| c44e98e | It would never have occurred to them to emulate Luis Estevez, a pediatrician at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, who has referred Puerto Rican and Dominican patients to a Santeria high priest as he might refer them to an opthalmologist, or Yasmin Collazo, a psychiatrist at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, who has allowed a Mexican curandero, or folk healer, to perform a cleansing ceremony in the hospital for a schizophrenic patient. Dr. Co.. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| e6757a2 | I remember having a little bit of a feeling of awe at how differently we looked at the world. It was very foreign to me that they had the ability to stand firm in the face of an expert opinion. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 0b1934b | Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good. | being-remembered memory talent | Anne Fadiman | |
| 2aced84 | Medicine was religion. Religion was society. Society was medicine. Even economics were mixed up in there somewhere (you had to have or borrow enough money to buy a pig, or even a cow, in case someone got sick and a sacrifice was required), and so was music (if you didn't have a qeej player at your funeral, your soul wouldn't be guided on its posthumous travels, and it couldn't be reborn, and it might make your relatives sick). In fact, the .. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 63c40ed | Now I only have one rule. Before I do anything I ask, Is it okay? Because I'm an American woman and they don't expect me to act like a Hmong anyway, they usually give me plenty of leeway. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| d47c3cc | Your soul is like your shadow," she said. "Sometimes it just wanders off like a butterfly and that is when you are sad and that's when you get sick, and if it comes back to you, that is when you are happy and you are well again." | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 6f32e0c | wasn't education a matter of infusing one's life with flavorful essences, pressing out the impurities, and leaving only a little sludge at the bottom? | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 363af96 | In 1965, Johnson commented sanctimoniously that "the problem of Laos is the refusal of the Communist forces to honor the Geneva Accords," What he failed to mention was that his own country wasn't honoring them either; it was just doing a better job of keeping its violations secret." | Anne Fadiman | ||
| fd29378 | I'll meet some people who'll treat me mean and I'll just pray that I'll never be like them. And then I'll meet some very nice people and I will take a little bit of them and make myself a better person. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| 6e3e094 | The Hmong community might not always meet the expectations of the American community, but it certainly knew how to run itself. Blia once drew me a flowchart-which was Cartesian-delineating how his organization worked. "At the top is the president and advisory board of eight," he explained. "Then eleven Board of Director. Then seventeen district leaders. Then our 6,000 members. Let us say we need a hundred dollars to help out person who wil.. | Anne Fadiman |