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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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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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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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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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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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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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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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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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Depression starts slow.
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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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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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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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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They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.
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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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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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I just want to not be me.
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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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