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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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Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
Food
Reduce
Sleep
Karma
Place
Noise
Find
Intellectual
Enough
Quiet
Emotional
Repair
Listen
Items
Silence
Arrive

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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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God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
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Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.
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