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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.

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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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Since
Happy
Kids
Back
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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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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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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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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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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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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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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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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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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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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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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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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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