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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
Poet
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
Sunflower
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Men
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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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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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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
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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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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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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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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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Her sunny side was always up.
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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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The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.
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It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.
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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.
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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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Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
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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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