“Hope and God were buddies. Theirs was not a formal relationship steeped in ritual and tradition. It was more of a close… — Augusten Burroughs Friendship Copy Share Image
“As I move along the line, other food items are plunked onto my tray: a small salad of iceberg lettuce and bacos,… — Augusten Burroughs Food Copy Share Image
“I could see jabs from his flashlight cutting into the woods on either side of me. He was back there, somewhere. The… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Unconditional love. That's what this is. I love him, as is, fully. I've had to stop arm wrestling with the facts. Why… — Augusten Burroughs Love 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
I think that the Internet is our most profound and beautiful achievement. It is magnificent. We have the Internet as a layer… — Augusten Burroughs Achievement Copy Share Image
“My life came complete with a factory-installed biological brother seven years my senior. ” — Augusten Burroughs Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“My brother had very specific likes and dislikes. Basically, he liked anything until it harmed him and then he was wary.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I nodded again, but I knew I would not grow up to drive a bulldozer. It would be awful to be dirty… — Augusten Burroughs Aspirations 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
Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk. — Augusten Burroughs Bother Copy Share Image
“Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.” — Augusten Burroughs Community Copy Share Image
My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. — Augusten Burroughs Cairo Copy Share Image
“Delay is a gun pointed at the temple of confidence.” — Augusten Burroughs Confidence Copy Share Image
My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact,… — Augusten Burroughs Academy Copy Share Image
“No wonder I had found that woman so offensive. Sometimes things feel that bad. Sometimes you just feel like shit.” — Augusten Burroughs 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
Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after… — Augusten Burroughs Birthday Copy Share Image
You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody… — Augusten Burroughs Alive Copy Share Image
“...I don't think it's any more deceptive than wearing four-inch come-fuck-me pumps when one has no intention of ever fucking anybody.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Although my parents never attended church or mentioned Jesus except when they screamed at each other—and then they used his full name,… — Augusten Burroughs Parenting Copy Share Image
“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention… — Augusten Burroughs Love Copy Share Image
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