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You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

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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
Time
Perfectly
Miserable
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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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Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.
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...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
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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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How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus
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Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.
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