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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.

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
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Smart
Problems
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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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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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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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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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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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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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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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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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What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. 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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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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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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The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.
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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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Nobody had told me I was common.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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I'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.
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