Frases de Augusten Burroughs (82 citas, página 2)

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“Tengo tendencia a la envidia. Es una de mis tres emociones por defecto, los otros son la codicia y la ira. También he experimentado la compasión y la generosidad, pero sólo fugazmente y por lo general en estado de ebriedad, por lo que no tengo mucho recuerdo sobre eso.”

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“Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all.

But holes are interesting things.”

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

“If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't' fit you.”

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

“Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.”

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Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects

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“Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.”

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Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects

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“The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.”

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

“I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.”

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Augusten Burroughs libro Running with Scissors

Fuente: Running with Scissors

“The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.”

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Augusten Burroughs libro Running with Scissors

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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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Augusten Burroughs libro Running with Scissors

Fuente: Running with Scissors

“I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.”

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“To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.”

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“I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.”

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Fuente: Magical Thinking: True Stories

“All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.”

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

“Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.”

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

“My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.”

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Augusten Burroughs libro You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

Fuente: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

“I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café.”

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Augusten Burroughs libro Running with Scissors

Fuente: Running with Scissors

“Now I can addto my list of life's accomplishments.”

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Augusten Burroughs libro Running with Scissors

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“He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.”

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“Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.”

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Augusten Burroughs libro Running with Scissors

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“And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.”

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Augusten Burroughs libro Dry

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“What nobody understood then is this: The only way that you achieve what you want and fulfill your dreams and become great is by demanding that sort of attention. You have to make it happen.”

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Augusten Burroughs libro Running with Scissors

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“Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.”

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

“This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.”

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

“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.”

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

“Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.”

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Augusten Burroughs libro Running with Scissors

Fuente: Running with Scissors

“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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Augusten Burroughs libro A Wolf at the Table

Fuente: A Wolf at the Table

“Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.”

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Augusten Burroughs libro You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

Fuente: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

“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.”

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Augusten Burroughs libro Running with Scissors

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“Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off”

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

“Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward.”

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

“Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year.”

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Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects

Fuente: Possible Side Effects