Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Her sunny side was always up.
Richard Brautigan
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
Side
Sides
Always
Sunny
More quotes by Richard Brautigan
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
Richard Brautigan
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
You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.
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 like a mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silence of her dreams.
Richard Brautigan
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
In a Cafe I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.
Richard Brautigan
God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
Richard Brautigan
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
The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.
Richard Brautigan
We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
Richard Brautigan
Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.
Richard Brautigan
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
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
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
For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.
Richard Brautigan
I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches it must be Halloween in the sea
Richard Brautigan
He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
Richard Brautigan
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
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
One day Time will die And love will bury it
Richard Brautigan
