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He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
Richard Brautigan
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Richard Brautigan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1935
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: October 25
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Tacoma
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Richard Gary Brautigan
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The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes.
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God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
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Her sunny side was always up.
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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
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Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
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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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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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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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Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.
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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 looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
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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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