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Nobody had told me I was common.

Ned Vizzini

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Nobody
Told
Common

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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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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 waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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Depression starts slow.
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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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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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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore all of a sudden it wants to do.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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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'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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