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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

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
Misfortune
Misfortunes
Cruelty
Excuse

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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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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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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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You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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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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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 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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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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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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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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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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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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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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I just want to not be me.
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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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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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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