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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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All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this goddamn world upside down to do it.
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Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.
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One day Time will die And love will bury it
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Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.
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I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.
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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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I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I’m yours ghosts and all.
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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.
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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.
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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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It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.
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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.
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The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes.
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I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches it must be Halloween in the sea
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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.
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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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Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.
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...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed.
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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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