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I love to both give and receive very old books.

~Augusten Burroughs

Topics: Books Both Give Love Old Old Books Receive Very I Love

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I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

~Augusten Burroughs

Topics: Connect Desperate Hunger Know Like Lying Misleading Other People Them Though You

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I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.

~Augusten Burroughs

Topics: Book Books Confident Continue Even Eventually Every Felt Fifties Forties Great Happen Knew Might Months New New Book Publication Read Six Sixties Something Understood Worthy Would Write Wrote Year

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I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

~Augusten Burroughs

Topics: Always Anywhere Because Culture Felt Fit How How Much Kind Like Love Much Never Part Something Target Tell Tourist You I Love

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But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

~Augusten Burroughs

Topics: Band Chicago Favorite Life Out

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Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

~Augusten Burroughs

Topics: Be True Before Definitely Memoir Read Reader Really True Want Writer

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Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.

~Augusten Burroughs

Topics: Actual Be Nice Because Bills Eat Entire Entire Life Going Life Lived Nice Pay Room Same Space Table Use Working You

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As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

~Augusten Burroughs

Topics: Child Childhood Drawn Extreme Happened Just Little Never Normal Really Situations Toward Unfortunately Wanted

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

~Augusten Burroughs

Topics: Listen Tend Writing Npr

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 23rd, 1965

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