Augusten Burroughs quotes - page 2

And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper. (Augusten Burroughs)
You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.
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Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.
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When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.
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My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.
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Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.
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Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.
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I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
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Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward.
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Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.
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The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear. (Augusten Burroughs)
God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn't press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.
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The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.
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I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?
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If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't' fit you.
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Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.
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My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.
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I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.
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You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.
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I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren't alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not.
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I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in. (Augusten Burroughs)
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 cool and New York City, and I'm not.
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I love to both give and receive very old books.
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I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time.
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My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
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