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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
Ruts
Stuck
Brain
Didn
Back
Right

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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore all of a sudden it wants to do.
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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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That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.
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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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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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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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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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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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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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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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I'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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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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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
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