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...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.

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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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Everything
Nothing
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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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The most likely person to kill you is your wife, but that probably won't happen. What probably will happen is a million little betrayals of varying degrees of pain, brought on by people you love, the only ones who really can hurt you.
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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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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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I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.
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Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty four hours.
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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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Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.
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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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But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.
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If you take someone's thoughts and feelings away, bit by bit, consistantly, they then have nothing left except some gritty, gnawing, shitty little instinct, down there, somewhere, worming around in the gut, but so far down, so hidden, it's impossible to find.
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There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, “Gradually and then suddenly.” When someone asks how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too.
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I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night – can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model.
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My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!
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The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.
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I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.
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In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead
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As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.
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I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.
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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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