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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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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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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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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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Of course I wasn't abused. If I were things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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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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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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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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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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Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
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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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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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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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That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
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We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.
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