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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

Ned Vizzini

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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
Truths
Profound
Saying
Stop
Middle
Things

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Time is a person-made concept.
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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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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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People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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It’s tough to get out of bed I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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Depression starts slow.
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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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I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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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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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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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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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
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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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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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