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God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
Richard Brautigan
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Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
Novelist
Poet
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Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
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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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Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.
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Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.
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It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.
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I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.
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The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.
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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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You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.
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Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept like a mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silence of her dreams.
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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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