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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
Writer
New York City
New York

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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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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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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.
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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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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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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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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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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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No, mom says, looking at me in the eyes. What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
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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 wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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