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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
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Prozac
Love
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Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like.
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That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
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I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.
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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.
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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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Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.
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My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
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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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Its the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul - to them, it is obvious that something is wrong or missing. Your heart and soul are missing. They feel it. It hurts them. It kills them.
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