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Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes about sleep

American Writer July 31, 1967

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Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning. Elizabeth Wurtzel
I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull all-nighters to finish up some paper that's due first thing tomorrow. 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. I want all my important possessions, my worldly goods, with me... Elizabeth Wurtzel
In those pamphlets that they give at mental health centers where they list the ten or so symptoms that would indicate a clinical depression, 'suicide threats' or even simple 'talk of suicide' is considered cause for concern. I guess the point is that what's just talk one day may become a real activity the next. So perhaps after years of walking around with these germinal feelings, these raw thoughts, these scattered moments of saying I wish I were dead, eventually I too, sooner or later,... 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
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: "In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and..."
In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead Elizabeth Wurtzel

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