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Depression starts slow.

Ned Vizzini

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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
Depression
Starts
Slow

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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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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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I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.
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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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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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I like you a lot. Because you’re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that’s not a good reason, but I can’t help it if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [...] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face—
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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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One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.
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I just want to not be me.
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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 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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I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.
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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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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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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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