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Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
Richard Brautigan
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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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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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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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