Dry. (2004) (edit title/settings)

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• Greer: She works with Burroughs at the ad agency in New York City.
• Hayden: Add a description of this character.
• Rick: boyfriend
• Jim: boyfriend
• Foster
• Augusten Burroughs: Author
• Paul
• David
• Virgil
• Dewar
• Astrid
• Wendy
• Rae
• Marion
• Dr. Valium
• Kyle
• Bobby
• Brian

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• “<My apartment is> filled with empty Dewar’s bottles, hundreds of empty Dewar’s bottles. They cover all surfaces; the counters in the kitchen, the top of the refrigerator. They are under the table I use as a desk, dozens of them there, with a small clearing for my feet… And then I see them: fruit flies, hovering at the mouths of the bottles. They form dark clouds at the ceiling above the kitchen sink. And dead fruit flies cover everything, like dust.”

• “I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?”

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• Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don’t go there alone,

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• Stars should not be seen alone. That’s why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.

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• I hate having feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings? One minute I feel excited, the next I feel terrified. One minute I feel free and the next I feel doomed.

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• “Well, the thing is, part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.

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• Alcohol time is very different from sober time. Alcohol time is slippery whereas sober time is like cat hair. You just can’t get rid of it.

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• The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green. It’s no longer really summer but the air is still too warm and heavy to be fall. It’s the season between the seasons. It’s the feeling of something dying.

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• Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I’m an imposter.

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• That I use booze like an escape hatch and also like a destination in itself.

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• I sit there and think how it isn’t fair that I can’t drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and this is why. I blew my wad. Fuck.

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• A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES BEGINS WITH A SINGLE STEP.

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• Manhattan
• New York City
• London
• New Germany

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1. Augusten Burroughs (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.6

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Language and sexual content. Also deals with tough subject themes (addiction, rape, relationships, death).

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