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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
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
Flowers
Flower
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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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We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.
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Her sunny side was always up.
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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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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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It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.
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We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
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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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Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
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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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Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.
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God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
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