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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.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

My life’s actually been quite dull; it’s not all that glamorous.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Actually Dull Glamorous Life
Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Alloe Instinct Side Try
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.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Fall Little Rain Sunny
It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people’s imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Imagination Interest People
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
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.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Eventually Literature People Worry
Oh, Ma, you’re looking at all the trees, and I’m not even in the forest.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Forest Look Tree
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Depression Literature Way
My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Imagination Passion People Surprise
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!
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

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

Everything Feels Nothing Ultimately
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

Despair Long Predilection Sorrow
In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Meantime Room Rooms Sleep
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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Enjoy Feeling Look Wall White

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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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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