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“The earth has its music for those who will listen”
― Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies

“There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery”
― David Lynch

“I wouldn't know what to do with [colour]. Colour to me is too real. It's limiting. It doesn't allow too much of a dream. The more you throw black into a colour, the more dreamy it gets… Black has depth. It's like a little egress; you can go into it, and because it keeps on continuing to be dark, the mind kicks in, and a lot of things that are going on in there become manifest. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.”
― David Lynch, Lynch on Lynch

“Float with me in the world of ether.”
― David Lynch

“The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

“I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“I’ll tell you a big secret, mon cher. Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Question your tea spoons.”
― Georges Perec, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces

“Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.”
― Andre Breton

“Words make love with one another.”
― Andre Breton

“...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.”
― André Breton, Nadja

“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.”
― Andre Breton, Nadja

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

“The imaginary is what tends to become real.”
― André Breton

“A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what? Two women. What do they look like? Wearing black. Where are they? In a park. . . . And then, what are they doing? Try it, it's so easy, why don't you want to play? You know, that's how I talk to myself when I'm alone, I tell myself all kinds of stories. And not only silly stories: actually, I live this way altogether.”
― Andre Breton, Nadja

“May night continue to fall upon the orchestra”
― Andre Breton

“Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.”
― André Breton

“But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“Come here, image.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“In a way, I was safe writing”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“It is as if a person were a prisoner, and he had not only the intention to escape, which would perhaps be attainable, but also, and indeed simultaneously, the intention to rebuild the prison as a pleasure dome for himself. But if he escapes, he cannot rebuild, and if he rebuilds, he cannot escape.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

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

“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 drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”
― Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

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

“My Name

“I guess you are kind of curious as to who I am, but I am one of those who do not have a regular name. My name depends on you. Just call me whatever is in your mind.
If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer.
That is my name.
Perhaps it was raining very hard.
That is my name.
Or somebody wanted you to do something. You did it. Then they told you what you did was wrong—“Sorry for the mistake,”—and you had to do something else.
That is my name.
Perhaps it was a game you played when you were a child or something that came idly into your mind when you were old and sitting in a chair near the window.
That is my name.
Or you walked someplace. There were flowers all around.
That is my name.
Perhaps you stared into a river. There as something near you who loved you. They were about to touch you. You could feel this before it happened. Then it happened.
That is my name.”
― Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

“Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”
― Richard Brautigan