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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. Its not en

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. Its not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. – Augusten Burroughs

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Ive just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and Im now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father. – Augusten Burroughs

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I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didnt have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams. – Augusten Burroughs

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Man cannot live by incompetence alone. – Charlotte Whitton

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Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. – W. Clement Stone

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Be able to live alone, even if you dont want to and think you will never find it necessary. – Marilyn vos Savant

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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. – Blaise Pascal

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I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. – From the television show The Wonder Years

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