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For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.
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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Writer
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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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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