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One Quotes by Augusten Burroughs
- I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
- Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's…
- I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and…
- To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to…
- It’s a wonder I’m even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can’t believe I haven’t killed myself. But there’s something in me…
- Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.
- I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet…
- Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will…
- I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the…
- Most everybody had made at least one bad, drunken decision in their lives. Called an ex at two in the morning. Or perhaps has a…
- It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?
- Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And…
- I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.
- Dennis looked at the puppy in the window. We both did. It was the oddest thing. Normally, puppies in pet store windows sleep or pee…
- As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could…
- Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it…
- Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get…
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