"It was a salad bar of phobias"

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Augusten Burroughs

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“Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.”
“We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.”
“Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.”
“The object of the superior man is truth.”
“Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.”
“Some souls think that the Holy Spirit is very far away, far, far, up above. Actually he is, we might say, the divine Person who is most closely present to the creature. He accompanies him everywhere. He penetrates him with himself. He calls him, he protects him. He makes of him his living temple. He defends him. He helps him. He guards him from all his enemies. He is closer to him than his own soul. All the good a soul accomplishes, it carries out under his inspiration, in his light, by his grace and his help.”
“The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.”
“This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.”

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