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In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

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Depression, Might, Prozac Nation

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork, stop going out drinking with your friends on a Saturday night, stop accepting starring roles in theater productions, and stop doing everything besides sitting here by my side and passing me Kleenex and aspirin while I lie and creak and cry and drown myself and you in my misery.

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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 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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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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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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People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.

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Depression, Ambition, Fighting

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Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.

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Issues, Abuse, Literature

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

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No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain could get so bad that death became a star to hitch up to, a fantasy of peace someday which seemed better than any life with all this noise in my head.

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Death, Stars, Pain

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.

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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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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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Book, Writing, Paper

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

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

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Work, Book, Writing

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I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.

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Agendas, Television, Politician

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A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

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Depression, Sight, Fog

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.

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Hurt, Morning, Mean

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

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You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

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Hate, Miserable

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All I do is go to the movies.

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Movie

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I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.

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Heartbroken, Wall, Believe

"Elizabeth Wurtzel Confronts Her One-Night Stand of a Life". www.thecut.com. January 6, 2013.

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I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

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Honesty, Wells, Has Beens

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Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

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Principles, Belief, Annoying

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for the Uncommon Woman”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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If you take someone's thoughts and feelings away, bit by bit, consistantly, they then have nothing left except some gritty, gnawing, shitty little instinct, down there, somewhere, worming around in the gut, but so far down, so hidden, it's impossible to find.

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Feelings, Littles, Impossible

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...All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain.

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Brain, Want, Apocalypse

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.64, 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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