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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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New York City
New York
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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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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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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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've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.
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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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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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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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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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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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Time is a person-made concept.
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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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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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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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