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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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Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.
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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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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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Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.
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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
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I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.
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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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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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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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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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He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
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One day Time will die And love will bury it
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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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