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I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone has to be on the best-seller list, 'Why not me?' Someone has to write for the 'New Yorker,' 'Why not me?' And I didn't really get much positive reinforcement as a kid, so I thought, 'Well let me show you what I can do.'

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Always Get Kid Knew List Me Much Myself New New Yorker Positive Really Reinforcement Show Someone Thought Well Why Why Not Write Writer Yorker You I Can

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I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: About Any Facade Feel How Just Knew Life Like Longer Maintain May Maybe Show Something Start Stupid Through Whole Wish Wrong I Wish

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

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Adult Given Imaginary Life Most Movies Power Single Vulnerable Women Women Are

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I am a hopeless, shameless flirt.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

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I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

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I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world's hard drive, I would save Bob Dylan's work for sure - he's the greater talent, and by leaps and bounds and skyscrapers and rocket blasts. But Bob Dylan is an alien to his public.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Answer Does Face Happy Hypocrisy Keep Keeping Know Need Only Put Rest Sorrow Up Why World

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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.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Battle Cure Depression Fight Happiness Live Long Ongoing Really Start Think Wonder Worth Worth It I Wonder

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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.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: After Bad Because Hurt Just Just Because Know Lawless Life Live Mean Morning People Rules Sometimes Way Were Wish Without World I Wish

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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.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Always Books Carry Case Down Get Just Know Lots Masterpiece Me Oh Paper Pens Read Roam Sit Something Somewhere Stuff Urge Wherever Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 31st, 1967

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