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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.

Ned Vizzini

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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
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Compliment
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Mess
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Expect
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Trouble
Learn
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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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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Time is a person-made concept.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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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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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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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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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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It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore all of a sudden it wants to do.
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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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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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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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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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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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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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