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• I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Work, Book, Writing

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• I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.

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  Libro, Escritura, Papel

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.

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  Country, Pride, Israel

  "Standing against a tide of hatred" by Elizabeth Wurtzel, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

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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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  Worry, Crash, Landing

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Años de depresión me han robado esa... ese dar, esa elasticidad que todo el mundo llama perspectiva.

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  Years, Giving, Perspective

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

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  Plastic, Dies

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most likely person to kill you is your wife, but that probably won't happen. What probably will happen is a million little betrayals of varying degrees of pain, brought on by people you love, the only ones who really can hurt you.

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  Hurt, Pain, Betrayal

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2012). “Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women”, p.53, Anchor

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• My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.

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  Life, Dull, Glamorous

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• There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

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  Stupid, Doors, Intellectual

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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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  Heart, Brain, Needs

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir.

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  Fun, Light, Way

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• I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

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  Girl, Sick, Alarms

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life in the universe, and that they were alone. And they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find.

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  Sun, Planets, Very Happy

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.288, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• La depresión consiste en que si me quisieras lo harías. Es decir, si me quisieras dejarías de hacer tus deberes, dejarías de salir de copas con tus amigos los sábados por la noche, dejarías de aceptar papeles protagonistas en producciones teatrales y dejarías de hacer todo lo que no sea sentarte aquí a mi lado y pasarme Kleenex y aspirinas mientras yo yazgo y crujo y lloro y me ahogo y te ahogo en mi miseria.

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  Lying, Drinking, Night

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive would end in disappointment. Time became palpable and viscous. Every minute, every second, every nanosecond, wrapped around my spine so that my nerves tightened and ached. I faded into abstraction. A self-generated narcosis created a painful blank where my mind used to be.

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  Disappointment, Self, Mind

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I’ve been looking for a feeling like that everywhere I go. I’ve been waiting for someone to see all the good in me at every truck stop and intersection along the way. I’ve been waiting all my life for the moment to arrive when I can just stop. Stop looking

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  Waiting, Feelings, Way

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

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• I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

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  Feelings, Prozac Nation, Prozac

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

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  Cry, Elusive

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• For all of my life I have needed more.

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  Necesario

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.

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  Brother, Kids, Parenting

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And I want out of this life on drugs.

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  Drug, Want, This Life

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns into a terrible fear that I will have no friends, I will be alone in this world and in my life. I will eventually be so crazy from this black wave, which seems to be taking over my head with increasing frequency, that one day I will just kill myself, not for any great, thoughtful existential reasons, but because I need immediate relief.

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  Crazy, Thoughtful, People

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.

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  Buenos días

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  People, Literature, Worried

  "Snort story" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2002.

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• Estaba destinada a salir con el capitán del equipo de fútbol, iba a estar de excursión romántica todos los sábados por la noche, estaba destinada a estar recogiendo ramilletes de todos los chicos de la ciudad antes del baile de graduación, aceptando tales ofrendas florales como sacrificios competidores a una diosa de Delfos.

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  Football, Team, Sacrifice

  "Failure to Launch: When Beauty Fades". www.elle.com. May 20, 2009.

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