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One day Time will die And love will bury it
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
Time
Love
Bury
Dies
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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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Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept like a mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silence of her dreams.
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We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
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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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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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Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to 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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The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
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In a Cafe I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.
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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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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.
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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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