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"That night I went back to the shack and set fire to it. I didn’t take anything with me and went to live at iDEATH. That was twenty years ago, though it seems like it was only yesterday: What’s eight times eight?"

-Brautigan, Richard. In Watermelon Sugar. (pg. 294)

"A LITTLE WHILE after Margaret left, Fred came by. He was not involved with the bridge. He only used it to get to my shack. He had nothing else to do with the bridge. He only walked across it to get to my place."

-Brautigan, Richard. In Watermelon Sugar.

"P.S.
Sorry I forgot to give you the mayonaise."

-Brautigan, Richard. Trout Fishing in America.

"The last time we met was in July on the Big Wood River, ten miles away from Ketchum. It was just after Hemingway had killed himself there, but I didn’t know about his death at the time. I didn’t know about it until I got back to San Francisco weeks after the thing had happened and picked up a copy of Life magazine. There was a photograph of Hemingway on the cover."

-Brautigan, Richard. Trout Fishing in America

"Ah, yes, there was a future in the insane asylum. No winter spent there could be a total loss."

-Brautigan, Richard. Trout Fishing in America.

"He created his own Kool-Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it."

-Brautigan, Richard. Trout Fishing in America (pg. 26)