Augusten Burroughs Short Quotes

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After was better. Before was only there so After could happen.

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Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.

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Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.

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I will please shut the hell up the day you please drop the hell dead.

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I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water.

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Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.

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My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.

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My sense of humor is really nothing more than a flashy defense mechanism.

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Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.

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I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child.

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I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

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It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.

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Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.

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My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

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All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.

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I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.

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I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.

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This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

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Handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

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Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.

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Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.

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The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.

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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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My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

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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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I don't believe in the concept of a soul mate. Because we are all unique, but we're also simply too similar.

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And she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.

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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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Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.

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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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