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I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

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The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Always Go Law Law School School Truth Truth Is Wanted

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I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a big chunk of debris fell on top of my building, and the roof caved in. I thought I was going to die. Really. I'd never thought that before, but on that day I sat there and thought 'I cannot believe it's going to end this way.'

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

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I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the time that I don't spend writing, I could raise a family of five.' In a lot of ways, being a writer is lonely and alienating.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Bruce Springsteen really got any creative person's dream career, and his good-heartedness and good-spiritedness are part of it: both because it made the people behind the scenes want to do their jobs that much better, but it also means that he connects with an audience in a way that holds them close.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

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If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed's work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Damn Godless Human Life Looked Music Only Reed Safety See Some Spend Story Then Time Understand Unexpected Unfold Want Work Worth Years You

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By never marrying, I ended up never divorcing, but I also failed to accumulate that brocade of civility and padlock of security - kids you do or don't want, Tiffany silver you never use - that makes life complete.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Accumulate Also Civility Complete Ended Failed Kids Life Makes Marrying Never Security Silver Up Use Want You

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Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Constant Convention Crisis Else Existential Family Gives Imposition Life Meaning Purpose Remind Serve Something Something Else Stake Will Without You

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Women who have it all should try having nothing: I have no husband, no children, no real estate, no stocks, no bonds, no investments, no 401(k), no CDs, no IRAs, no emergency fund - I don't even have a savings account. It's not that I have not planned for the future; I have not planned for the present.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 31st, 1967

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