# Richard Brautigan

- Quotes: 5
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-brautigan

## Books

- [An Unfortunate Woman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-brautigan/an-unfortunate-woman.md) — 1 quote
- [So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-brautigan/so-the-wind-wont-blow-it-all-away.md) — 1 quote
- [Trout Fishing in America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-brautigan/trout-fishing-in-america.md) — 3 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> 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?

p. 15

> I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

p. 38

> There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

> Everything smelled of sheep. The dandelions were suddenly more sheep than flower, each petal reflecting wool and the sound of a bell ringing off the yellow. But the thing that smelled the most like sheep, was the sun itself. When the sun went behind a cloud, the smell of sheep decreased, like standing on some old guy's hearing aid, and when the sun came back again, the smell of the sheep was loud, like a clap of thunder inside a cup of coffee.

p. 50

> ... the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America.

p. 73