Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

American - Writer | July 31, 1967 -

I've calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I've spent a lot of my life being in it for the plot, and I don't do that anymore. I'm satisfied. I'm not competing with myself. I accomplished things I wanted to do, so everything I do now is because I want to, not because I'm trying to prove something.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

LifeMyselfLooking BackLooking

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

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HonestyI AmFortunatePaidWellAm

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.

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SadHappyWorldRestFaceHypocrisy

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.

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LifeLiveMorningPeopleWorldHurt

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.

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MeDownKnowMasterpieceWriteSit

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

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CharacterMyselfDepressionMeWorld

Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

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DiePlasticEverythingGonna

All I do is go to the movies.

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GoMovies

It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.

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YouBackPersonTroubleSleeping

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

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LifeWomenPowerMoviesSingleMost

Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

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MyselfPeopleThoughtSayWillSure

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

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