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Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.
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
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Reduce
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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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He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
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I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.
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We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.
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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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Love Poem ـــــــــ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.
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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.
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I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.
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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 bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.
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Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.
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