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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
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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...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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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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For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.
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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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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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God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
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I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.
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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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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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Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.
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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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Her sunny side was always up.
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We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.
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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 bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.
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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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There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
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We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.
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We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
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