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There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
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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Sunflower
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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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Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.
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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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You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.
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The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.
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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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Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.
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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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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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One day Time will die And love will bury 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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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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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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...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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Her sunny side was always up.
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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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For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.
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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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It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.
Richard Brautigan
The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
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