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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
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Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
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I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.
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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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God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
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The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes.
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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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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.
Richard Brautigan
I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
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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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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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You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.
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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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We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
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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'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
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Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
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All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this goddamn world upside down to do it.
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Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.
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He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
Richard Brautigan
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.
Richard Brautigan
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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