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I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fi

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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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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When people meet me, many times theyre very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and Im not. – Augusten Burroughs

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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. – Gaston Bachelard

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Man is firmly convinced that he is awake in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself. – Gustave Meyrink

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[B]y far the larger number of the dreams… occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a “second sleep.” A condition of fasting, united, possibly, with some subtle magnetic or other atmospheric state, seems therefore to be that most open to impressions of the kind. – Dr. Anna Bonus Kingsford, 1886, preface to Dreams and Dream-Stories, 1888

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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Dont try to be like me. Be better than me. – Florence Griffith Joyner

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