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I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.
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
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
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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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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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For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.
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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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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.
Richard Brautigan
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
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Her sunny side was always up.
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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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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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I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I’m yours ghosts and all.
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Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.
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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
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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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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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Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
Richard Brautigan
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.
Richard Brautigan
...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.
Richard Brautigan
There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.
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