Finding is losing something ...

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this
 Richard Brautigan

Quotes from the same author

The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.
 Richard Brautigan
I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.
 Richard Brautigan
He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.
 Richard Brautigan
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there... I sat there watching their living room shining out of the dark beside the pond. It looked like a fairy tale functioning happily in the post-World War II gothic of America before television crippled the imagination of America and turned people indoors and away from living out their own fantasies with dignity... Anyway, I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then.
 Richard Brautigan
The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering what had happened between them or just tumbling head-over-heels down into romantic oblivion where the image of a remembered kiss provokes bottomless despair and makes death seem like the right idea.He experienced the basics of love ended.
 Richard Brautigan