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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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Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
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A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, It makes me want to write poetry.
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Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?
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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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He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
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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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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 daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.
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For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.
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There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
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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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Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.
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It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.
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The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of print, and no one wanted to read them any more and the people who had read the books had died or forgotten about them, but through the organic process of music the books had become virgins again.
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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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A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, It makes me want to write poetry.
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I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.
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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 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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