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Augusten Burroughs relationship

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I’ve just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I’m now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

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Augusten Burroughs relationship

Augusten Burroughs | relationship

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.

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Augusten Burroughs marriage

Augusten Burroughs | marriage

Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.

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Augusten Burroughs future

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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.

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Augusten Burroughs Dreams

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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.

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Augusten Burroughs cool

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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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Augusten Burroughs Lushery Molestation Spinsterhood This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness

Quote from Augusten Burroughs, This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

If you have one parent who loves you, even if they can’t buy you clothes, they’re so poor and they make all kinds of mistakes and maybe sometimes they even give you awful advice, but never for one moment do you doubt their love for you–if you have this, you have incredibly good fortune.If you have two parents who love you? You have won life’s Lotto.If you do not have parents, or if the parents you have are so broken and so, frankly, terrible that they are no improvement over nothing, this is fine.It’s not ideal because it’s harder without adults who love you more than they love themselves. But harder is just harder, that’s all.

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Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects

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Just as I had long suspected, a person didn’t really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.

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Augusten Burroughs Running with Scissors

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Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth

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