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After was better. Before was only there so After could happen.

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Augusten Burroughs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 23
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Happens
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My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
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You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.
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I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I not only survived all this but I have thrived. I've always been psychologically ambitious in that I've never been willing to settle emotionally for anything less then what's needed. I've wanted more then that from life.
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Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
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Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.
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All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.
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What I really want is to sit next to someone under an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and drink coffee from the same mug. I don't want some rusty '73 Ford Pinto with a factory-defective gas tank that causes it to explode when it's rear-ended in the parking lot of the supermarket. So why do I keep looking for Pintos?
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I don't really think of my blog as a real blog. It's a lame blog. It's more like my when-the-mood-strikes update, or smoke signal.
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The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.
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I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.
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My subconscious does the writing I don't have control over that.
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Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.
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There's never a false note in a Berg novel.
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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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Never work with children, puppies or bulimics.
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My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.
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Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.
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Other people sound flat to my ear their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.
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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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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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