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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.

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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
Enemy
Even
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Thinking

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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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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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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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 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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How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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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 feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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Time is a person-made concept.
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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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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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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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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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