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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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Elizabeth Wurtzel
Age: 52 †
Born: 1967
Born: July 31
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
Autobiographer
Journalist
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New York City
New York
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel
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...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
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Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.
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Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does getting help with depression mean? Learning to keep away from your own mind?
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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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I sit there in my bed staring at the wall, feeling happy, enjoying the way the wall looks, how pink and how white it is. Pink and white, as far as I’m concerned, have never looked quite so pink and white before.
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So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.
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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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I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.
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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 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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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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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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Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
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You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.
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Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.
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And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren't we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?
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How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus
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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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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.
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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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