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Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. (Augusten Burroughs)
Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year. View quote
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I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways. View quote
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My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective. View quote
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Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour. View quote
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Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. View quote
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Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap. View quote
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All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated. View quote
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So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment. View quote
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I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them. View quote
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Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal. (Augusten Burroughs)
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 generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory. View quote
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I never listen to music when I write. View quote
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I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness. View quote
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...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting. View quote
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My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. View quote
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He was raised without a proper diagnosis. View quote
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I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page. View quote
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Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior. View quote
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I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that can't be explained. She's always so nice and friendly. Exactly the disposition of a baby killer. View quote
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Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue. (Augusten Burroughs)
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair. View quote
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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. View quote
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I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams. View quote
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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 going to be nice to have actual space. View quote
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