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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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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
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New York City
New York
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Depression starts slow.
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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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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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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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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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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'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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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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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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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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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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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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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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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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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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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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