Quote

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.

Richard Brautigan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
Think
Pills
Thinking
Versus
Like
Disaster
People
Mines
Mine
Inside
Lost
Take
Pill

More quotes by Richard Brautigan

Image
I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
Richard Brautigan
Image
I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
Richard Brautigan
Image
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 like a mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silence of her dreams.
Richard Brautigan
Image
You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.
Richard Brautigan
Image
I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I’m yours ghosts and all.
Richard Brautigan
Image
Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
Richard Brautigan
Image
One day Time will die And love will bury it
Richard Brautigan
Image
I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.
Richard Brautigan
Image
The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.
Richard Brautigan
Image
The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of print, and no one wanted to read them any more and the people who had read the books had died or forgotten about them, but through the organic process of music the books had become virgins again.
Richard Brautigan
Image
All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this goddamn world upside down to do it.
Richard Brautigan
Image
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.
Richard Brautigan
Image
We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
Richard Brautigan
Image
Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.
Richard Brautigan
Image
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
Richard Brautigan
Image
It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.
Richard Brautigan
Image
Her sunny side was always up.
Richard Brautigan
Image
If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
Richard Brautigan
Image
God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
Richard Brautigan
Image
A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, It makes me want to write poetry.
Richard Brautigan