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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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Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
Whores
Orleans
Sixteen
Learned
Firsts
First
Life
Dostoevsky

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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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Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.
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