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That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: About Almost Almost Anything Anything Being Cage Compounds Daily Depression End Ever Fog Human Human Being Impossible Insidious Key Like Long See Sees She Sight Survive Thing Without

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In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Depression Fallen Had Love Strange Strange Way Way

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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.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Alright Because Come Come And Go Could Depression Face Forced Go Left Obligations Only People Please Protest Real Rightful Said Simply Sometimes Think Throw Were Withdraw World I Think

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I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Absolutely Am Fashionable Forward French Gesture He Heels Her How Interested Intriguing Just Kennedy Kitten Knows Ladylike Like Locks Man Quietly Someone Unfortunately Walk Were Whisper Who Wish I Am I Wish

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Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Doing Idiotic Insanity Just Knowing Somehow Still Stop You

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I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in 'American Psycho.' In 1993, every day was 'let's get lost.' I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: American Banker Character Could Day Did Every Every Day Except Found Get Greenwich Hollywood Hours Lost Main Main Character Mobile Occasional Phone Psycho Seeming Smart Star Village Walk

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I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Again Am Any Exhausted Had Just More Out Stuff Tired Try Twenty Want I Am

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I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Accepting Before Boy Captain Collecting Competing Date Destined Every Excursion Football Football Team Goddess Going Like Meant Night Prom Romantic Sacrifices Saturday Saturday Night Team Town

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

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Actually Been Dull Glamorous Life Quite

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The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Alive Avalanche Bury Fallen Going Just Life Like Me Mean Men My Life Past Piled Same Through Up

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 31st, 1967

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