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Augusten Burroughs

"Reading takes solitude and it takes focus."

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"The quality of time you are able to concentrate and use to produce values is what determines your greatness."

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"But for many people, a huge part of the energy goes into the struggle with complexes, fear, worries, anxiety, and the energy cannot be used to achieve goals and dreams."

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"I wish you could stop wasting your life to fulfill other people's dreams."

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"Learn how to pray with all your heart, applying all your energy to concentrate on one specific goal."

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"Things are not working for us because our focus is lost."

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"Time is wasted when it is not being converted."

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"Don't exert all your energy on employment, locate your purpose."

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"It is no use setting priorities if you won't stick to them."

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"Your calling is your natural area of concentration."

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"The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money, focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One's focused awareness (upayog) is where he has 'interest'!"

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

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Augusten Burroughs
"My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective."

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"I love to both give and receive very old books."

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Augusten Burroughs
"I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience."

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

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Augusten Burroughs
"I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in."

Experience

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Augusten Burroughs
"As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward."

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Augusten Burroughs
"I never listen to music when I write."

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Augusten Burroughs
"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."

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"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."

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