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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

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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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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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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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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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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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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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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I just want to not be me.
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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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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The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.
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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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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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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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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 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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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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