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• Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

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  Fighting, Israel, Odds

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

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• 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, Writing, Hair

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night – can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model.

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  Sleep, Night, Drug

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

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• The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.

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  Thinking, Years, Finals

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

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  Happiness, Depression, Fighting

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

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• I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

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  Depression, Character, Offering

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.302, 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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• Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

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  Love, Wish, Care

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

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  Dream, Government, Somewhere Else

  "America, land of the free to be stupid" by Elizabeth Wurtzel, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.

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• I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.

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  Depression, Hate, People

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of party allegiance; Democrats and Republicans equally unite behind the blue-and-white.

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  Country, Party, Israel

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

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• Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my eighteen years. It was all still with me, the storage space in my brain crammed with vivid memories, packed and piled like photographs and old dresses in my grandmother’s bureau. I wasn’t just the madwoman in the attic — I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

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  Memories, Grandmother, Past

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does getting help with depression mean? Learning to keep away from your own mind?

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  Mean, Simple, Dope

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At heart, I have always been a coper, I've mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I've always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown. But in the end, I'd be able to get up and on with it, could always do what little must be done to scratch by.

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  Depression, Heart, Scratches

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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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  Jobs, Responsibility, Simple

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.

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  Parent, Adults, Television

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.313, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.

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  Depression, Real, Thinking

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Feminist, Feminism, Literature

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• I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

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  Past, Vivid Memories, Prozac Nation

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Depression, United States, Sometimes

  "Prozac Nation". www.imdb.com. June 13, 2003.

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• In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

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  Sleep, Rooms, Ifs

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

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  Rain, Fall, Littles

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

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• In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

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  Life, Literature, Adults

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• I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

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  Thinking, Long, Parent

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• I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

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  Work, Integrity, Body

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