Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

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Elizabeth Wurtzel

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• I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Mediocrity

• OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • American
  • Doubt
  • Basketball

• Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Respect
  • Yourself

• We have an alliance that was forged more than a half century ago, and strengthened by shared interests and democratic values. Our people share ties of family, ties of culture, and ties of commerce. Our troops have served to protect Japan’s shores, and our citizens have found opportunity and friendship in Japan’s cities and towns.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Family
  • Culture

• The fact is there are no stories I can tell my friends that will make them feel better. History cannot be erased, although we can soothe ourselves by speculating about it.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Friends
  • History

• That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Drinking

• In 2009, 2010, the Obama people were the ones mad at me.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • People
  • Mad

• My earliest memory is a picnic in the park near our house, which was next to Wimbledon Common. Why on earth we went to a park when we lived so near the common is a mystery, but it had formal gardens and lawns - perhaps it was that very difference that took my parents there.

  

  Martin Clunes
  • Why
  • House
  • Parents

• Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Crazy

• I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield

• One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Real
  • Judge

• I like cooking the biggest steaks. It cooks nice and evenly when it's that thick, and you're not eating the whole thing yourself, which is nice. You get to share that with a companion.

  

  April Bloomfield
  • Nice
  • Cooking

• Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Time
  • Control
  • Single

• Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Time
  • Death

• I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Life
  • Good
  • Chinese

• From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Age
  • Wife
  • Teacher

• It's difficult for people to visualize from my drawings what it's going to be, so I often find myself talking them into things that they go along with, and when they see what's been made, they are surprised.

  

  James Turrell
  • People

• Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Silence
  • Go

• This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Bad

• I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.

  

  Brittany Murphy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • World
  • Caring

• In February of 1972, a snowstorm blew into Kansas City, and I decided to hitchhike to California. The roads were icy, snowflakes howling, and nobody would drive me to the highway, so I humped through the snow and ice and caught a ride with a concerned cop to the Kansas Turnpike.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • City
  • California
  • Snow

• I am a hopeless, shameless flirt.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
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