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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
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New York City
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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 had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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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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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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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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I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
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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 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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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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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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Depression starts slow.
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Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
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It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore all of a sudden it wants to do.
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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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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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