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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.

Ned Vizzini

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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New York City
New York
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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 feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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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 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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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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Time is a person-made concept.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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It’s tough to get out of bed I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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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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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
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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'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
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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 just want to not be me.
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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 the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
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