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The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.
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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Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.
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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’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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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.
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We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.
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Love Poem ـــــــــ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.
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I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.
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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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For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.
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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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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
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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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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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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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Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
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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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The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.
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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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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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