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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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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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...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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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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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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All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this goddamn world upside down to do it.
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The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.
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We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.
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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
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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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The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
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Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.
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Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?
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We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
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I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches it must be Halloween in the sea
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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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The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes.
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God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
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