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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.

Augusten Burroughs

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Augusten Burroughs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 23
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Pinch
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Grab
Like
String
Strings
Fingers
Sky
Pinching
Reach
Kite
Dream
Kites

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