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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
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Tacoma
Washington
Richard Gary Brautigan
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We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
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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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Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
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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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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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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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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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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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Her sunny side was always up.
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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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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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