Augusten Burroughs Quotes

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• I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
• I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you…
• For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in the morning looks…
• Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final…
• The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan…
• Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If both tits just…
• Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
• Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.
• I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat,…
• There's not enough of me left over.
• Freshly brainwashed from rehab, I carry the bottle into the bathroom. I hold it up to the light. See the pretty bottle? Isn't it beautiful?…
• Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
• There's never a false note in a Berg novel.
• When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and…
• I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.
• I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading…
• My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse -…
• You manufacture beauty with your mind
• You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a…
• As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

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