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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
Novelist
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Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
Dostoevsky
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Life
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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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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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I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.
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