Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Xon Burroughsis an American writer known for his New York Times bestselling memoir Running with Scissors...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth23 October 1965
CountryUnited States of America
thinking people desire
When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.
zoos animal people
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.
mistake people world
Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you.
thinking two people
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.
real people facts
Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.
interesting long people
Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
lying people hunger
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.
mother air people
Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.
dark people savages
The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.
new-york cities people
When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.
interesting people handsome
...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.
home people mind
I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.
men differences people
The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.
eye people sides
A lot of people can be afraid of the masking because people can misrepresent themselves [in the Internet] and they can pose as people they're not. Well, yeah; that's true. That's one side of it. But the other side of it is that it equalizes you and if you happen to be a person who is not equal in the eyes of the greater society that's a damn good thing.