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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
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New York City
New York
Didn
Back
Right
Ruts
Stuck
Brain

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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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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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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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Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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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'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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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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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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