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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

“It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.”
― Jack Kerouac

“They build their own Hells.”
― Jack Kerouac

“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry”
― Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

“It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
― William S. Burroughs

“When you stop growing you start dying.”
― William S. Burroughs, Junky

“In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.”
― William Burroughs

“I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink...”
― William S. Burroughs

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

“Love Poem
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It's so nice
to wake up in the morning
all alone
and not have to tell somebody
you love them
when you don't love them
any more.”
― Richard Brautigan

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

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

“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

“Money is sad shit”
― Richard Brautigan, The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings

“The Beautiful Poem"

I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking
about you.

Pissing a few moments ago
I looked down at my penis
affectionately.

Knowing it has been inside
you twice today makes me
feel beautiful.”
― Richard Brautigan, The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster

“I’m haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.”
― Richard Brautigan

“He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.”
― Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

“For fear you will be alone
you do so many things
that aren’t you at all.”
― Richard Brautigan

“Messy, isn't it?”
― Richard Brautigan

“Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore.”
― Richard Brautigan, در رؤیای بابل

“The thought of her hands
touching his hair
makes me want to vomit.”
― Richard Brautigan

“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, Tokyo-Montana Express

“Just because people love your mind, doesn't mean they have to have your body, too”
― Richard Brautigan

“In watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar. I will tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.”
― Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

“The voyage from San Francisco to Hawaii had been the most terrifying experience Greer and Cameron had ever gone through, even more terrible than the time they shot a deputy sheriff in Idaho ten times and he wouldn't die and Greer finally
had to say to the deputy sheriff,
"Please die because we don't want to
shoot you again".

And the deputy sheriff had said, "Ok, I'll die, but don't shoot me again".

"We won't shoot you again", Cameron had said.

"Ok, I'm dead", and he was.”
― Richard Brautigan, The Hawkline Monster

“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

“Watcha doin? If you're like me, you're doin nothin, but you're doin it so well that everybody thinks you're doin somethin.”
― Richard Brautigan, The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings