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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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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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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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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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I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.
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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 bees in my stomach are dead and getting used 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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