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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
Writer
New York City
New York
Managed
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Life
Cured

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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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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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Of course I wasn't abused. If I were things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.
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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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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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Nobody had told me I was common.
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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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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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I just want to not be me.
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I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.
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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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