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Time is a person-made concept.

Ned Vizzini

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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New York City
New York
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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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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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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.
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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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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 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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They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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I just want to not be me.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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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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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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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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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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