Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.


John Burroughs

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AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chai...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills a...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rej...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's ...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christia...
JEFF BURROUGHS
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many d...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
[Outside in the rain, paying punters appeared evenly divided between those there to see the bands an...
DAVID BURROUGHS
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing o...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
And by lucky coincidence, here comes a green Mazda pickup with a brown stripe.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS
I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, ...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
If we happened to be in rehearsal downstairs in my room and a neighbor padded across the lawn to rap...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
From Queen Elizabeth, who had her own box, to the street cleaners.
LYNNE BURROUGHS
I think basically it's just bad luck.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS
If it is the same guy, he's been pretty busy.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS
We got a name and tracked him down to the Best Value Inn in Renton.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS
They're not sure of anything yet.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS
About the same time, the people in the pickup truck realized they were being followed and it turned ...
ROBBIE BURROUGHS
He gave up about five minutes later.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS
About everyone on staff helps out for trivia.
KITT BURROUGHS
Unconditional love. That's what this is. I love him, as is, fully. I've had to stop arm wrestling wi...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and l...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
It has been proven that preserving these properties increases their value.
BEN BURROUGHS
By preserving these neighborhoods, we are creating a draw for tourists and that translates into an e...
BEN BURROUGHS
We are talking about something that cannot be bought. It's our heritage, and it needs to be preserve...
BEN BURROUGHS
You deserve to need me, not to have me.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Augusten very distant tonight. Probably because of my games.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Suddenly, this word fills me with a sense of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sad...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
As in a tree, there is more sap in an Arm of the tree, than in a little sprig; but the sprig hath th...
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS
Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I'm not anxious, I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horrib...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Jesus came to give us life. We don't have to hang on a cross like he did. For him, it was a sacrific...
DILLON BURROUGHS
Use the talents you’ve developed to create goodwill, to ease the burdens of those who are not as f...
LAURA BURROUGHS
I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alo...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'ga...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emot...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
His toes wriggle in his socks and my first thought is, I want to snip them off with hedge trimmers. ...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Never work with children, puppies or bulimics
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Nothing surprises me now," I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
Freshly brainwashed from rehab, I carry the bottle into the bathroom. I hold it up to the light. See...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
If you're gay and live in New York and don't go to gym, eventually they come for you.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand ...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
After I cut off his penis, I sautéed it in rosemary butter and ate it"
"But did you go to a me...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
What I really want is to sit next to someone on an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and dr...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
There's not enough of me left over.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS