"I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. Iâ€™m shutting down. I need to go the other way, inside. And it was so clear to me what I was doing. It was suddenly perfectly clear. I understood, I need to write. Live here, in my words, and my head. I need to go inside, thatâ€™s all. No big, complicated, difficult thing. I just need to go in reverse. And not worry about what to write about, but just write. Or, if Iâ€™m going to worry about what to write, then do this worrying on paper, so at least Iâ€™m writing and will have a record of the anxiety."

-- Augusten Burroughs

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