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I'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.

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
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Life
Cured
Managed

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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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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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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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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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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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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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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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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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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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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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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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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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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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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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