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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“آفتاب را دوست دارم
به خاطر پیراهن‌ات روی طناب رخت
باران را
اگر که می‌بارد
بر چتر آبی تو
و چون تو نماز می‌خوانی
من خداپرست شده‌ام”
― بیژن نَجدی

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.”
― Romain Gary

“Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.”
― Romain Gary

“I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.”
― Romain Gary

“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.”
― Richard Brautigan

“all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.”
― richard brautigan

“I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.”
― Richard Brautigan

“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.”
― Richard Brautigan

“I'm in a constant process of thinking about things. ”
― Richard Brautigan

“I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.”
― Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

“In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.”
― Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

“I will be very careful the next time I fall in love, she told herself. Also, she had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive or fun they could be. They weren't worth it in the long run. They were emotionally too expensive and the upkeep was complicated. They were like having a vacuum cleaner around the house that broke all the time and only Einstein could fix it. She wanted her next lover to be a broom.”
― Richard Brautigan, Sombrero Fallout

“I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.”
― Richard Brautigan

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols