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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

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
Feelings
Feel
Wasted
Feels
Useless
Kind
Awful
Broken
Dead
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Forget

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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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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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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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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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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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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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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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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 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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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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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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No, mom says, looking at me in the eyes. What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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