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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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Craig
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I'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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I like you a lot. Because you’re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that’s not a good reason, but I can’t help it if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [...] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face—
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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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They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.
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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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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.
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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.
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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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It’s tough to get out of bed I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.
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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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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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