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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Craig
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I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
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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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Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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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 can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
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No, mom says, looking at me in the eyes. What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
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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'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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Time is a person-made concept.
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How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?
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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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I just want to not be me.
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
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I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.
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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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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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