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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
Away
Come
Take
Enough
Long
People
Homelessness
Bed

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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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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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