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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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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Cured
Managed
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Life

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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 still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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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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It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore all of a sudden it wants to do.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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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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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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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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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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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 waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.
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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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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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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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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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Time is a person-made concept.
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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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