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Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior.

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Augusten Burroughs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 23
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Hair
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I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.
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The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.
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The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the nebula of creative genius. When you have total freedom i.e: no limits at all. You stop trying to make the best of things
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I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it.
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We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.
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I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water.
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I don't think writers - in general - ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a fraction of the population reads. But I guess there are exceptions.
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The most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone: not to friends nor therapists not even in rehab when we were detailing our own personal spirals of shame did I confess. It is this: I am a graduate of the Barbizon School of Modeling.
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My subconscious does the writing I don't have control over that.
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My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
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If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't' fit you.
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Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.
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You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.
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There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.
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Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off
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Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.
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If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class.
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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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After was better. Before was only there so After could happen.
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but I am not here ironically I am here sincerely.
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