Richard Brautigan

"all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds."

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

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

"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?"

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"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 sh…"

"... 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."