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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.
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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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.
Richard Brautigan
Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
Richard Brautigan
I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.
Richard Brautigan
Her sunny side was always up.
Richard Brautigan
I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.
Richard Brautigan
It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.
Richard Brautigan
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.
Richard Brautigan
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?
Richard Brautigan
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.
Richard Brautigan
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.
Richard Brautigan
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.
Richard Brautigan
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.
Richard Brautigan
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.
Richard Brautigan
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.
Richard Brautigan
Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.
Richard Brautigan
Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.
Richard Brautigan
The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.
Richard Brautigan
We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
Richard Brautigan
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.
Richard Brautigan
You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.
Richard Brautigan
