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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.

Ned Vizzini

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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
Depressed
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Answers
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Easy
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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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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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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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.
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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 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 feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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Depression starts slow.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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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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No, mom says, looking at me in the eyes. What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
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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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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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