Augusten Burroughs Quotes

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

  Augusten Burroughs

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Twitter post from Dec 07, 2013

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• 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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  Happiness, Giving Up, Would Be

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• This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Ambition, Overcoming, Matter

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.195, Macmillan

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

  Augusten Burroughs

  Happens

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.149, Macmillan

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• No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may still be ahead of you. Don't misunderstand me: the pain of your loss will remain with you for the rest of your life. But great joy will be there right beside it. Deep sorrow and deep joy can exist within you, side by side. At every moment. And it's not confusing. And it's not a conflict.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Pain, Loss, Long

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.100, Macmillan

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• I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it.

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  Knows, Deserve

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.148, Macmillan

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  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 single thing to anyone, ever.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Goodbye, Inspiration, Different

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.93, Macmillan

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• Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium.

  Augusten Burroughs

  People, Fake, Positive Energy

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.17, Macmillan

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• The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them. We reexperience emotions we felt during the painful events we experienced because we are recalling them in as much detail as we can.

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  Memories, Past, Focus

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.108, Macmillan

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• This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Losing Someone, Someone You Love, Should

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.179, St. Martin's Press

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• Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.

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  Imperfection, Attractive, Owners

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.27, Macmillan

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• But feelings, no matter how strong or “ugly,” are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your mind listens to if you don’t give it something better to do. Feelings are fluid and dynamic; they change frequently. Feelings are something you HAVE, not something you ARE. Like physical beauty, a cold sore, or an opinion. Admitting you feel rage or terrible pain or regret or some old, rotten blame does not mean these feelings are part of who you are as a person. What these feelings mean is, you have to change your thinking to be free of them.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Strong, Regret, Pain

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.

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  Zoos, Animal, People

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.85, Macmillan

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• It was unnerving, the way she could go from cool efficiency to sarcastic to sweet within the space of thirty seconds. I found it very manipulative and controlling. It put the other person constantly on-guard. And it was extremely intimidating because you never knew when she was going to snap. I made a mental note to refine these skills within myself.

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  Sarcastic, Sweet, Skills

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Take Five: Four Favorite Essays Plus One Never-Been-Seen Essay: Four Favorite Essays Plus One Never-Been-Seen Essay”, p.40, Macmillan

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  Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.

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  Love Is, Emotion, Taking The High Road

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.140, Macmillan

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

  Augusten Burroughs

  Cigarette, Smokers

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.79, Macmillan

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• There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

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  Shame, Hungry, Share

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

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  Thinking About You, Reduction, Interest

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.

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  Stars, Two, People

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Dry”, p.188, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.

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  Years, Cities, People

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• Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

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  Long, Hatred, Ruins

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.19, Macmillan

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• Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Moving, Needs, Done

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• Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it’s never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait.

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  Mean, Swings, Mad

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• Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something on the surface of a river that we reached for but did not touch in time and it carried on, away. 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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  Moving, Past, Rivers

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.96, Macmillan

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• I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Matter, Impossible, Remember

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