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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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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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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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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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One day Time will die And love will bury it
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God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
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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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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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He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
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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 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.
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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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Love Poem ـــــــــ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.
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Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.
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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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The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.
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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.
Richard Brautigan
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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There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
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.
Richard Brautigan
We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
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