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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
Arrive
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Intellectual
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Listen
Silence
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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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Her sunny side was always up.
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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.
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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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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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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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