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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

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
Conjunctions
Kill
Talk
Hard

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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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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 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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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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I don't- I shake my head. (...) What? What were you going to say? This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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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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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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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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