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You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.

Ned Vizzini

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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New York City
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.
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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.
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I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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Of course I wasn't abused. If I were things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
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I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
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I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
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People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
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