4 Quotes by Augusten Burroughs about recovery
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You can never replace it. The good news is you do learn to live without it. You miss it. You want it. You hang out with a bunch of other crazy people who feel the same way and you live with it. And eventually, you start to sound like a cloying self-help book, like me.
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Part of me felt deep compassion. And another part felt like, You fucker.
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I want to feel calm and at ease. Like someone who lives in Half Moon Bay, California, and makes hummus from scratch. Instead, I feel like I'm a contestant on some awful supermarket game show where I've got sixty seconds to hurl my shopping cart down the aisles, piling it with as much as possible before the buzzer goes off.
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Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.
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