"I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep."

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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.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Richard Brautigan

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“We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.”
“Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.”

Source : Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
“Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.”
“I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.”
“There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.”
“The Motion Picture Association of America wipes the sweat off its brow and sings the PG-13 song.”
“I know people are fickle.”
“It seems strange that the Mother of the race should be made the Slave of the Fruits of her Womb. It appears peculiar that she should have no privileges except those received through her son. It seems illogical that the God Principle of the Universe, in its infinite wisdom, should endanger the existence of the Race by making the Mother of it the weak, cringing underling of her husband.”

Source : Hilton Hotema (1998). “Secret of Regeneration”, p.276, Health Research Books

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