# Quote — Richard Brautigan, An Unfortunate Woman

> 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?

- Author: [Richard Brautigan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-brautigan.md)
- Book: [An Unfortunate Woman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-brautigan/an-unfortunate-woman.md)
- Page: 15
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Brautigan#An_Unfortunate_Woman:_A_Journey) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
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