Quotes of Augusten Burroughs - somelinesforyou

“ I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ If you have one parent who loves you, even if they can't buy you clothes, they're so poor and they make all kinds of mistakes and maybe sometimes they even give you awful advice, but never for one moment do you doubt their love for youif you have this, you have incredibly good fortune. If you have two parents who love you? You have won life's Lotto. If you do not have parents, or if the parents you have are so broken and so, frankly, terrible that they are no improvement over nothing, this is fine. It's not ideal because it's harder without adults who love you more than they love themselves. But harder is just harder, that's all. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ 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. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ There's never a false note in a Berg novel. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ There's never a false note in a Berg novel. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ 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. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen. ”

- Augusten Burroughs
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