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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.

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
Something
Nobody
Thinking
Rest
Ruse
World
Told
Complicit
People
Wasn
Fooled
Wrong
Gifted
Common
Mom
Hard
Worked
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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