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

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Smart
Problems
Problem
Enough

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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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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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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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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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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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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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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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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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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 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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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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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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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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