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" Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Action
Instinct
Odds
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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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" 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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" Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't. "
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" 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. "
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" I am motivated to write because it is what I am meant to do. It is not a choice - it is what I am. I did not choose writing - it chose me. And I believe it is necessarily that way. Anyone doing this for some other reason should not be. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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" I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone has to be on the best-seller list, 'Why not me?' Someone has to write for the 'New Yorker,' 'Why not me?' And I didn't really get much positive reinforcement as a kid, so I thought, 'Well let me show you what I can do.' "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Kid
Myself
Positive
" I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Sort
Am
False
" Yes, the United States is still the great meritocracy it's always been; but now, if you aren't brilliant or beautiful or both, there isn't much to do, because they can do it cheaper in Shanghai or Mumbai. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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You
Great
" 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
Goddess
" In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. "
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Love
Fallen
Strange
" 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
Wish
Forward
I 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
" I am a hopeless, shameless flirt. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Am
Shameless
I Am
" 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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" 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
Work
Person
" I am not a nostalgic person. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Nostalgic
Person
Am
" All I do is go to the movies. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Movies
Go
" Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
People
Face
Think
" It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Women
People
Me
" 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
" 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
" The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Truth Is
Always
Truth
" My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Passion
Imagination
Love
" 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. "
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People
Nation
Pain
" 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. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
People
Say
Will
" Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Trying
Sides
See
" I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world's hard drive, I would save Bob Dylan's work for sure - he's the greater talent, and by leaps and bounds and skyscrapers and rocket blasts. But Bob Dylan is an alien to his public. "
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Talent
Work
World
" Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore. "
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Work
Wisdom
Time
" 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. "
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American Dream
American
Up
" That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. "
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Fog
Daily
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