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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.

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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
Stuck
Brain
Didn
Back
Right
Ruts

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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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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'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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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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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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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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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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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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