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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.

Ned Vizzini

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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
Knowing
Strong
Done
Enough
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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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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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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A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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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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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 had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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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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I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.
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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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Depression starts slow.
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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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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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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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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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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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