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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
Novelist
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New York City
New York
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Breathe
Today

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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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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 wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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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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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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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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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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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. 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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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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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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Depression starts slow.
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Time is a person-made concept.
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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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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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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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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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