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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.

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
Someone
Life
Explode
World
Screwed
People
Ready
Somebody
Open
Rather
Perfect

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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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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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I just want to not be me.
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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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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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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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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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Of course I wasn't abused. If I were things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.
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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 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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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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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 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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Time is a person-made concept.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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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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Depression starts slow.
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