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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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Augusten Burroughs
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Category: Relationship

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
  • 2. Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
  • 3. Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out but I'm not complaining … Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them not all of them.
  • 2. My public image is so low-key but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
  • 3. I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

3 Anger

  • 1. I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.
  • 2. Anger cannot be dishonest.
  • 3. Generally speaking if a human being never shows anger then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 2. Mr. Speaker I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1 2006.
  • 3. Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
  • 2. Of course I know very little about architecture and the older I get the less I know.
  • 3. But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
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