"Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it."

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Source : Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Richard Brautigan

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“I know well what faith really means to people in their daily lives, as there are many people in my family whose lives are permeated by their faith: it dictates the way they behave and sustains them in tough times, of which we've had too many lately.”

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“Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.”
“Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!”
“From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale.”

Source : Jean Ingelow (1885). “Poems”
“I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to be wanting for my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. O man, place not thy confidence in this present world!”
“I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one.”
“The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.”
“There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'”

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