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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.
Richard Brautigan
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Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
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If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
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We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
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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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Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.
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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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He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
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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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I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.
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One day Time will die And love will bury it
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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 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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Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.
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Her sunny side was always up.
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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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...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed.
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