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but I am not here ironically I am here sincerely.

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Augusten Burroughs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 23
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Ironically
Sincerely

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My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.
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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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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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I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
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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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I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.
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All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.
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Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
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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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Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year.
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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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I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.
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It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover.
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The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.
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God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn’t press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.
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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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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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There is nothing about myself that I wouldn't reveal or write about. I don't care how horrendous or ridiculous I may appear in person or in print. There is great freedom in not caring what other people think.
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