Richard Brautigan · 302 pages
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“...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed.”
― Richard Brautigan, quote from The Tokyo-Montana Express
“There was something dead in my heart.
I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse.
I had a dead mouse in my heart.”
― Richard Brautigan, quote from The Tokyo-Montana Express
“The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes.”
― Richard Brautigan, quote from The Tokyo-Montana Express
“There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.”
― Richard Brautigan, quote from The Tokyo-Montana Express
“There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.”
― Richard Brautigan, quote from The Tokyo-Montana Express
“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, quote from The Tokyo-Montana Express
“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, quote from The Tokyo-Montana Express
“I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.”
― Richard Brautigan, quote from The Tokyo-Montana Express
“Peut-être que vous étiez allongé au lit, presque sur le point de vous endormir, et vous avez ri de quelque chose, une plaisanterie toute personnelle, une bonne façon de finir la journée. C'est ça, mon nom.”
― Richard Brautigan, quote from The Tokyo-Montana Express
“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, quote from The Tokyo-Montana Express
“Bir günün olağanüstü olabilmesi için bir şeftalinin yettiği bir geçmiş zamanda bir yaz günü, sıranın sonunun gelmesini sabırla bekleyen ve şeftalilerle dolu poşetler taşıyan bir geyik sürüsüyle birlikte bir ren geyiği istasyonuna doğru yol alan bir trendeydim sanki.”
― Richard Brautigan, quote from The Tokyo-Montana Express
“Bir şeyleri sürekli asaletle halleden insanlar var. O şeylerin ne olduğunun önemi zaten yok.”
― Richard Brautigan, quote from The Tokyo-Montana Express
Richard Brautigan
Born place: in Tacoma, Washington, The United States
Born date January 30, 1935
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