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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
Writer
New York City
New York
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Compliment
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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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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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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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I don't- I shake my head. (...) What? What were you going to say? This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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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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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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Time is a person-made concept.
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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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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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I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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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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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.
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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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