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Nobody had told me I was common.

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

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Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
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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'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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Time is a person-made concept.
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I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.
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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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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 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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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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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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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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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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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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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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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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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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