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I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel
Age: 52 †
Born: 1967
Born: July 31
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
Autobiographer
Journalist
Lawyer
Writer
New York City
New York
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel
Heart
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Love
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Brain
Turns
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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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They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.
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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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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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Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.
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Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel.
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Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.
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