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" I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Integrity
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Person
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" It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women. "
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" I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted. "
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Want
Exhausted
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" I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in 'American Psycho.' In 1993, every day was 'let's get lost.' I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found. "
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" All I do is go to the movies. "
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Go
" I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes; that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain. "
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Money
" I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Forward
I Am
" Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened. "
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Good
Great
Like
" I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
I Am
Me
Am
" I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated. "
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Work
Only
Like
" The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Men
Life
Alive
" 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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Living
Next
Stupid
" Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Hurt
Live
Life
" As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of party allegiance; Democrats and Republicans equally unite behind the blue-and-white. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Country
Good
Live
" I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. "
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Character
Me
Depression
" I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
People
Nation
Pain
" My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Quite
Glamorous
Dull
" In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. "
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Power
Women
Single
" Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Everything
Plastic
Die
" People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Anger
Depression
Work
" In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. "
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Love
Fallen
Strange
" I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels. "
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Wolf
Feel
Say
" Some people just seem like they are up to no good. Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict, and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
People
High School
Good
" The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
American Dream
American
Up
" I am a hopeless, shameless flirt. "
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Am
Shameless
I Am
" 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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Romantic
Football
Goddess
" The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school. "
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Truth Is
Always
Truth
" 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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Long
Happiness
Depression
" I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. "
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Life
Feel
Start
" Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish. "
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Trying
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See
" I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Sort
Am
False