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I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma.

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Augusten Burroughs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 23
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Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.
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but I am not here ironically I am here sincerely.
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Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.
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Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.
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Miracles do happen. You must believe this. No matter what else you believe about life, you must believe in miracles.
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I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not.
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If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.
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Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch your door. You will just stare. As though rebuffed by it. As though it has done this to you.
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There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.
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This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.
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I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
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What police officer would dare ticket Death's minivan?
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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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It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?
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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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I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the person you are today.
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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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After was better. Before was only there so After could happen.
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