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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

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

Enjoy Feeling Look Wall White
In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead
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Meantime Room Rooms Sleep
…if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
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Everything Feels Nothing Ultimately
Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
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Alloe Instinct Side Try
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
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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Despair Long Predilection Sorrow
And I want out of this life on drugs.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Drug Happen Life Out
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
The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.
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Job Responsibility Simple
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
I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.
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Feeling Nation Prozac Something Wrong
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
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Depression Pain Purposeful Sad
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
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Depression Literature Way

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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