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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.
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
Heart
Lived
Sinks
Really
Civilization
Oblivion
People
Blood
Existed
Gone
Houses
House
Muscles
Makes
Bones
Certain
Older
Ever
Wear
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