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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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Elizabeth Wurtzel
Age: 52 †
Born: 1967
Born: July 31
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
Autobiographer
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Lawyer
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New York City
New York
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel
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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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Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.
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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 seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we're all so bummed out.
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I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.
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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 need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.
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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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Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.
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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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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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In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.
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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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Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.
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homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.
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