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I just want to not be me.

Ned Vizzini

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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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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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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It’s tough to get out of bed I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.
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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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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 didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.
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Depression starts slow.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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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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That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
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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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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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