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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.
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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We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
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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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Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.
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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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The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.
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I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.
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God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
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I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.
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You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.
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