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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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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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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
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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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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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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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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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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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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 know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.
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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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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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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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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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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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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.
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The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.
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