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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
Bed
Away
Come
Take
Enough
Long
People
Homelessness

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See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
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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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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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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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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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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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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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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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Time is a person-made concept.
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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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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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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Nobody had told me I was common.
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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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