Augusten Burroughs Quotes

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  • In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

    Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Running With Scissors”, p.185, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

    Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.96, Macmillan
  • And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.

  • There is nothing about myself that I wouldn't reveal or write about. I don't care how horrendous or ridiculous I may appear in person or in print. There is great freedom in not caring what other people think.

    Interview, www.goodreads.com. April, 2008.
  • Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior.

    Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.93, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it’s never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait.

  • The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them. We reexperience emotions we felt during the painful events we experienced because we are recalling them in as much detail as we can.

    Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.108, Macmillan
  • Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody. There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

  • I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to go the other way, inside. And it was so clear to me what I was doing. It was suddenly perfectly clear. I understood, I need to write. Live here, in my words, and my head. I need to go inside, that’s all. No big, complicated, difficult thing. I just need to go in reverse. And not worry about what to write about, but just write. Or, if I’m going to worry about what to write, then do this worrying on paper, so at least I’m writing and will have a record of the anxiety.

    Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.120, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Even painfully shy and awkward people are not painfully shy or awkward when they are alone. The way to access this natural, comfortable alone-self when you are with others is by choosing to forbid yourself to wonder what "they" are thinking. Instead, force yourself to exist in the instant, then take it- and give it- as it comes.

    Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.62, Macmillan
  • So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.

    Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.100, Macmillan
  • but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

    Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Magical Thinking: True Stories”, p.243, Macmillan
  • I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality.

  • I don't believe in the concept of a soul mate. Because we are all unique, but we're also simply too similar.

    Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.26, Macmillan
  • New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and not feel in the slightest guilty about it.

    Source: www.bookslut.com
  • 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 (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.134, Macmillan
  • Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort of way. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax.p28

    Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.30, Macmillan
  • I think people might think, oh, I don't want to approach the big famous author because it's embarrassing, but then they think for two seconds about it and realize, this is, like, a toilet bowl reader.

    Source: www.bookslut.com
  • The most important thing for a writer to do is to write. It really doesn't matter what you write as long as you are able to write fluidly, very quickly, very effortlessly. It needs to become not second nature but really first nature to you. And read; you need to read and you need to read excellent books and then some bad books. Not as many bad books, but some bad books, so that you can see what both look like and why both are what they are.

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    Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 3, 2009.
  • The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.

    Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.160, Macmillan
  • ...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

    Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.121, Macmillan
  • Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.

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  • I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.

    Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.138, Macmillan
  • Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.

  • No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may still be ahead of you. Don't misunderstand me: the pain of your loss will remain with you for the rest of your life. But great joy will be there right beside it. Deep sorrow and deep joy can exist within you, side by side. At every moment. And it's not confusing. And it's not a conflict.

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    Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.100, Macmillan
  • The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.

    Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.260, Macmillan
  • 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.

    Source: blogcritics.org
  • Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.

    Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Dry”, p.188, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and how to keep moving on.

    Source: blogcritics.org
  • Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.

    Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.78, Macmillan
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