Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan
Richard Gary Brautiganwas an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His work often employs black comedy, parody, and satire. He is best known for his 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 January 1935
CountryUnited States of America
trout excuse said
Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
thinking losing lost
Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this
tired night light
I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.
book coffee years
I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.
dream rain picnics
I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.
coffee matter cups
Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.
religious cousin fall
A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person out of work. The day was scrubbed clean by the desert air. The sky was blue. It was the blue of human eyes, waiting for something to happen. There was no reason for a sombrero to fall out of the sky. No airplane or helicopter was passing overhead and it was not a religious holiday.
vocabulary childhood feelings
Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words. Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.
karma sleep emotional
Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.
rain dirt sun
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
book writing mayonnaise
I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.
emotional silence intellectual
Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.