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Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.
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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Body
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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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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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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.
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I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.
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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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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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The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.
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I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches it must be Halloween in the sea
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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
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One day Time will die And love will bury it
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In a Cafe I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.
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We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
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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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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 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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Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.
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The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
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There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
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