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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.

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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
Alot
Ashamed
Spent
Money

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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'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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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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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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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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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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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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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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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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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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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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We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.
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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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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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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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