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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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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Long
People
Homelessness
Bed
Away
Come
Take
Enough

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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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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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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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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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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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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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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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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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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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I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.
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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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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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