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If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.

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Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
Novelist
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Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
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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.
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He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
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Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.
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Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
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The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
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It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.
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One day Time will die And love will bury it
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You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.
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A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, It makes me want to write poetry.
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For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.
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Love Poem ـــــــــ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.
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The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.
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Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.
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In a Cafe I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.
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I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.
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I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.
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I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I’m yours ghosts and all.
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There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.
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