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You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.
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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...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.
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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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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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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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We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
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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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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 don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.
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Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
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Her sunny side was always up.
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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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God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
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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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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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