Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes - Page 6

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• I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

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  Cry, Elusive

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• Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

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  Principles, Belief, Annoying

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for the Uncommon Woman”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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• I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.

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  Book, Writing, Paper

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life in the universe, and that they were alone. And they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find.

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  Sun, Planets, Very Happy

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.288, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork, stop going out drinking with your friends on a Saturday night, stop accepting starring roles in theater productions, and stop doing everything besides sitting here by my side and passing me Kleenex and aspirin while I lie and creak and cry and drown myself and you in my misery.

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  Lying, Drinking, Night

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.

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  Years, Giving, Perspective

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

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  Happiness, Depression, Fighting

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

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  Honesty, Wells, Has Beens

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• My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.

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  Life, Dull, Glamorous

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• I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

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  Girl, Sick, Alarms

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

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  Heart, Brain, Needs

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

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  Work, Book, Writing

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• Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.

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  Country, Pride, Israel

  "Standing against a tide of hatred" by Elizabeth Wurtzel, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

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• Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

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  People, Literature, Worried

  "Snort story" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2002.

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• I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

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  Football, Team, Sacrifice

  "Failure to Launch: When Beauty Fades". www.elle.com. May 20, 2009.

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• There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

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  Stupid, Doors, Intellectual

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• Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.

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  Morning

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns into a terrible fear that I will have no friends, I will be alone in this world and in my life. I will eventually be so crazy from this black wave, which seems to be taking over my head with increasing frequency, that one day I will just kill myself, not for any great, thoughtful existential reasons, but because I need immediate relief.

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  Crazy, Thoughtful, People

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

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  Plastic, Dies

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir.

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  Fun, Light, Way

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• I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive would end in disappointment. Time became palpable and viscous. Every minute, every second, every nanosecond, wrapped around my spine so that my nerves tightened and ached. I faded into abstraction. A self-generated narcosis created a painful blank where my mind used to be.

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  Disappointment, Self, Mind

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And I want out of this life on drugs.

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  Drug, Want, This Life

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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