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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
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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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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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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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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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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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