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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs
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People who need to cope with their (supposedly) dysfunctional families
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| This was a fun book to read. At first, it was very intense. Believing the author's experiences was a stretch for me the whole way through, but by the end, I obligingly accepted the ludicrousness of the world he grew up in. If you're figuring how to c...more | |
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“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket
― Lemony Snicket
“In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
“There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.”
― Lemony Snicket
― Lemony Snicket
“Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
“You are putting yourself in serious danger...'
I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
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from the classical literature of persia to modern iranian fiction and poetry all the way to present-day iranian-american fiction, poetry, and memoir
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