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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.

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
Fooled
Rest
Important
Something
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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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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 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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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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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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Nobody had told me I was common.
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Time is a person-made concept.
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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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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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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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I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
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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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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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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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That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.
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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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Depression starts slow.
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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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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 like you a lot. Because you’re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that’s not a good reason, but I can’t help it if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [...] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face—
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