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It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

…if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Everything Feels Nothing Ultimately
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
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Depression Literature Way
I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.
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Feeling Nation Prozac Something Wrong
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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Imagination Passion People Surprise
But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.
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Hand Someone Suicidal Suicide
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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Beyong Idea Salt Try
Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
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Fall Little Rain Sunny
Oh, Ma, you’re looking at all the trees, and I’m not even in the forest.
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Forest Look Tree
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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Eventually Literature People Worry
It’s being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It’s the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.
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Book Figure Hair Remember Write
It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people’s imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
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Imagination Interest People
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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Children Energy Job
Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
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Alloe Instinct Side Try
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?
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Confusing Keep Mean Need
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.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Always Long Missing Someone Trying
My life’s actually been quite dull; it’s not all that glamorous.
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Actually Dull Glamorous Life

It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it.

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It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it.

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