@debihope

Twitter user · display name Notorious d.e.b. · posted 24 January 2010

Quote Investigator credits the Twitter handle @debihope with constructing the saying, and stops at the handle rather than a full legal name. When QI contacted her in October 2014 she said the line popped right out of my own head and based on a past boyfriend. The account has since been suspended, taking the original tweet offline; a Goodreads user posting as “Debbie Hope” later asked publicly whether her quote had turned up inside Robert I. Sutton's The Asshole Survival Guide.

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“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes”

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