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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.
Ned Vizzini
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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
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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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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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Depression starts slow.
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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'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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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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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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