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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.
Ned Vizzini
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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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I don't- I shake my head. (...) What? What were you going to say? This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.
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A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
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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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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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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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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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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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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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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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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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Depression starts slow.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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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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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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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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