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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
World
Fooled
Rest
Important
Something
Thinking

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