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If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach.
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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He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
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Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.
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God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
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