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Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes

American Writer July 31, 1967

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Elizabeth Wurtzel quote: "I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it..."
I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated. Elizabeth Wurtzel
As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Elizabeth Wurtzel quote: "You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time."
You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time. Elizabeth Wurtzel
...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt. Elizabeth Wurtzel
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
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. Elizabeth Wurtzel
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. Elizabeth Wurtzel
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. Elizabeth Wurtzel
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. Elizabeth Wurtzel
I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Many of the people who consented to talk about their private lives in front of millions of television viewers would say that they were sharing their stories as a way to give comfort [to] fellow sufferers, to raise public awareness, to give a voice to their pain. None of them would ever admit that it was all about ratings and voyeurism and lurid, grotesque curiosity. Elizabeth Wurtzel
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. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Elizabeth Wurtzel quote: "It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble..."
It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Elizabeth Wurtzel quote: "Bitch: In praise of difficult women."
Bitch: In praise of difficult women. Elizabeth Wurtzel
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. Elizabeth Wurtzel

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