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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.

Augusten Burroughs

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Augusten Burroughs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 23
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Confidence
Interest
Whether
Others
Thinking
Reduction

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