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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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I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
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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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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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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'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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I like you a lot. Because you’re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that’s not a good reason, but I can’t help it if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [...] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face—
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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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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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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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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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You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.
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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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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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That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.
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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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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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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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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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