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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?
Ned Vizzini
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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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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 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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