If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight. — Augusten Burroughs Discipline Copy Share Image
“We're all going to die eventually so why not have some fun.” — Augusten Burroughs Death Copy Share Image
I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula. — Augusten Burroughs Formulas Copy Share Image
“Signs with missing letters can only mean bad things.” — Augusten Burroughs Bad thing Copy Share Image
“Now I can add prostitute to my list of life's accomplishments.” — Augusten Burroughs Accomplishments Copy Share Image
your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone. — Augusten Burroughs Community Copy Share Image
After was better. Before was only there so After could happen. — Augusten Burroughs Better Copy Share Image
The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there. — Augusten Burroughs Certain Copy Share Image
Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends… — Augusten Burroughs Air Copy Share Image
and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart. — Augusten Burroughs Medical Copy Share Image
The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not… — Augusten Burroughs Crazy Copy Share Image
“If you don't like smoking don't even bother getting sober, just stay drunk.” — Augusten Burroughs Getting sober Copy Share Image
“To be more confident you need to give a whole lot less of a shit about that other people think of you.” — Augusten Burroughs Confidence Copy Share Image
“I wanted to shove her typewriter on the floor. I hated it and I hated her. I wanted to be a Cosby.” — Augusten Burroughs Hated Copy Share Image
I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one… — Augusten Burroughs Has beens Copy Share Image
“As I sat on the midnight PVTA bus to Amherst, I scanned the male faces, looking for a potential boyfriend. My standards… — Augusten Burroughs Amherst Scanned Copy Share Image
When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them,… — Augusten Burroughs Book Copy Share Image
I don't sit down at nine in the morning and begin writing and then take a break for lunch and stop at… — Augusten Burroughs Break Copy Share Image
There is nothing about myself that I wouldn't reveal or write about. I don't care how horrendous or ridiculous I may appear… — Augusten Burroughs Care Copy Share Image
You must never allow something that happened to you to become a morbidly treasured heirloom that you carry, show people, put back… — Augusten Burroughs Black Copy Share Image
Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and… — Augusten Burroughs Caskets Copy Share Image
I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing… — Augusten Burroughs Arms Copy Share Image
“I love her handbag. Inside are papers and her wallet and cigarettes and at the bottom, where she never looks, there is… — Augusten Burroughs Change Copy Share Image
“After Olestra (may cause anal leakage), people are a tad suspicious about products that do things that are too good to be… — Augusten Burroughs Leakage Copy Share Image
“This is what I'm saying; you hate your life. But you don't know what life is. Life is too huge for you… — Augusten Burroughs Hate life Copy Share Image
“Let the people who want to have kids, have them. And let the rest of us spend the extra money on ourselves.… — Augusten Burroughs Bad person Copy Share Image
In order for us [people] to progress, we need brilliance and brilliance isn't fair and it's not polite and we can't grow… — Augusten Burroughs Access Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, this word fills me with a sense of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at… — Augusten Burroughs Children Copy Share Image
Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that… — Augusten Burroughs Believe Copy Share Image
“Freedom was what we had. Nobody told us when to go to bed. Nobody told us to do our homework. Nobody told… — Augusten Burroughs Freedom Copy Share Image
There's a lot about being "A Writer" that has nothing to do with writing. That's one thing I've discovered. You've got to… — Augusten Burroughs Force Copy Share Image
“The calcium in your bones came from a star. We are all made from recycled bits and pieces of the universe. This… — Augusten Burroughs Bits and pieces Copy Share Image
Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen. — Augusten Burroughs Decided Copy Share Image
“Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.” — Augusten Burroughs Community Copy Share Image
I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings? — Augusten Burroughs Doe Copy Share Image
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