Augusten Burroughs Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• 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.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Dream, Lonely, Thinking

• As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Children, Childhood, Racist

• So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Summer, Sadness, Firefly

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.74, Macmillan

• I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Childhood, Giants, Different

• But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor" of childhood sexual abuse, was raised in a cult and have no education. So, really, if you think about it, the only thing that separates me from the guy with the stinky foot and no teeth is a book deal and some cologne.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Thinking, Feet

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “Magical Thinking”, p.211, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Childhood, Shame, Embarrassment

  "INTERVIEW: Augusten Burroughs, Author of ‘Running With Scissors’". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.ropeofsilicon.com. October 27, 2006.

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