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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?

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
Nobody
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I just want to not be me.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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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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No, mom says, looking at me in the eyes. What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
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Time is a person-made concept.
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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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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
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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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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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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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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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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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I'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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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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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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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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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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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