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Augusten Burroughs, né Christopher Richter Robison le 23 octobre 1965 à Pittsburgh, en Pennsylvanie, est un écrivain américain. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. octobre 1965  •  Autres noms オーガステン・バロウズ, 奥古斯汀·巴勒斯, 奧古斯汀·巴勒斯
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Augusten Burroughs: Citations en anglais

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

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Augusten Burroughs livre Magical Thinking

Source: Magical Thinking

“I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Dry

Source: Dry

“The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

“Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

“You deserve to need me, not to have me.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”

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Source: Magical Thinking: True Stories

“My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

“Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Dry

Source: Dry

“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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Augusten Burroughs livre A Wolf at the Table

Source: A Wolf at the Table

“Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Dry

Source: Dry

“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.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Dry

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“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.”

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“I will please shut the hell up the day you please drop the hell dead”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

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

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Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects

Source: Possible Side Effects

“I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that can't be explained. She's always so nice and friendly. Exactly the disposition of a baby killer.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

“Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Dry

Variante: your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.
Source: Dry

“The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.”

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Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

“We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.”

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Source: Running With Scissors

“I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

“When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Dry

Source: Dry

“Turn off the light," she says as she walks away, creating a smallthat smells sweet and chemical. It makes me sad because it's the smell she makes when she's leaving.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

“… handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Dry

Source: Dry

“And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

Source: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

“But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

“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.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

“Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium.”

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Source: This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't

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