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Thing Quotes by Augusten Burroughs
- 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…
- Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.
- 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…
- Maybe it was a Patty Hearst thing. Stockholm syndrome or whatever it's called when you're being held against your will but then you become sucked…
- The reason I know what we are to each other is because we fight freely and almost constantly, about even the smallest thing. In fact,…
- 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…
- 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…
- But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor" of childhood sexual…
- I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to go the other…
- Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.
- Saying just the right thing after a considerable, awkward pause is far less effective than saying the wrong thing with perfect timing. I'm telling you.
- I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesnt deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than…
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