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f5e29bc
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I don't really need to explain this to Aaron. He's been demoted
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Ned Vizzini |
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cdfb249
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What were you tring to do, soldier? I was trying to eat, sir! And what happened? I got caught thinking about some crap, sir! What kind of crap? How I want to live less than my parent's dog.
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Ned Vizzini |
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85c5241
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When we got together we would start projects: an alarm clock torn apart and distributed over a wall, a stop-motion video of Lego people having sex, a Web site for pictures of toilets.
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Ned Vizzini |
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bfe6598
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Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth, and it come to ya!" I smile."
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Ned Vizzini |
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b13faf1
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Let's concentrate on our discussion of things that make us happy, Humble," says the psychologist."
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Ned Vizzini |
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586979b
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And I know about psychologists, when they're writing down what you're saying they're really writing down how much money they're going to get when they sell their latest yacht, because they're all yuppies with no respect....
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Ned Vizzini |
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66e9530
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Kid like you, got money, got a family, you'll be out in a few days.
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Ned Vizzini |
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349cd3e
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I didn't go to sleep until four, but I was in some one else's house, so I woke up early--at eight--with that crazy sleeping-at-someone-else's-house energy.
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Ned Vizzini |
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1992f24
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There's so much more for me to be doing. I should be a success and I'm not and other people - younger people - are.
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Ned Vizzini |
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1210217
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Just be careful of forming close relationships, Craig. Focus on Yourself." "Only then does healing take place."
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Ned Vizzini |
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7f37030
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There's a lot of yuppies in this place, and you have that look about you, you know--the yuppie look of people with money?" "Yeah." "People who don't care about other people."
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Ned Vizzini |
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9147efb
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Like in Animal Farm, which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others?
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Ned Vizzini |
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5dc052a
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Everything in my life is all in my brain, really, so it would be natural that when my brain was screwed up, everything in my life would be.
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Ned Vizzini |
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164316f
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It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true- big things are often just small things that are noticed.
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life
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Ned Vizzini |
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abeaafb
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I ask the nurse wrapping up her dispensing duties if I need any meds, and she says I'm not scheduled for any. I ask her if I can have some. She asks what I need them for. I tell her, to deal with this crazy place. She says if they had pills for that, they wouldn't need places like this in the first place, would they?
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Ned Vizzini |
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cf3bb9f
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When I was a kid I read these books, the Redwall books, fantasy books about a bunch of warrior mice, and the mice had this war cry that I always thought was cool: "Eulalia." And like an idiot, that's what I yelled off the Brooklyn Bridge: Eulaliaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" --
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Ned Vizzini |
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154513d
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ARE THOSE FRIGHTENING THINGS THAT APPEAR WHEN WE TAKE OUR MIND OFF OUR GOALS; DREAMS ARE ONLY DREAMS UNTIL YOU WAKE UP AND MAKE THEM REAL; THINGS I HAVE TO DO TODAY: 1) BREATHE IN 2) BREATHE OUT.
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Ned Vizzini |
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0aac05e
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A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships. I don't think your relationship with your parents is that important. Some people never know their parents. I don't think your relationships with your friends are important. But your relationship with air--that's key. You can't break up with air. You're kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can't be dropping food to hang ..
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Ned Vizzini |
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61d8564
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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. All you have to do is talk to people, and this was back when I could talk to anybody.
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Ned Vizzini |
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27c9fc6
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People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it
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Ned Vizzini |
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87f9f02
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The sweating is awful. It's not as bad as the not eating, but it's weird--cold sweat, all over my forehead, having to be wiped off every two minutes, smelling like skin concentrate. People notice. It's one of the few things people notice.
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Ned Vizzini |
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68b7816
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Jimmy may have only a few sentences in his repertoire, but he knows to keep going when pretty girls pay attention to him.
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Ned Vizzini |
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eda5025
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There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don't have any shoulds or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way.
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young-adult
mental-health
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Ned Vizzini |
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5b3390d
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I'm young, but I'm already screwing up my life. I'm smart but not enough - just smart enough to have problems.
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young-adult
youth
mental-health
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Ned Vizzini |
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31c667e
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Travel. Fly. Swim. Meet. Love. Dance. Win. Smile. Laugh. Hold. Walk. Skip. Jog. Run. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here. So now live for real. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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Ned Vizzini |
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8932da7
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See, because being Cool is obviously the most important thing on earth. It's more important than getting a job, or having a girlfriend, or political power, or money, because all those things are predicated by Coolness. They happen because of it. They depend on it.
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inspirational
pensieve
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Ned Vizzini |
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c52b779
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If placebo effects were this good, they should just make placebos the way to treat depression--maybe that's what they did; maybe Zoloft was cornstarch.
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Ned Vizzini |
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4007166
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They're sort of ancillary, 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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Ned Vizzini |
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813b4fa
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See, when you mess something up -- you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
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depression-recovery
mental-health
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Ned Vizzini |
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7a13c3d
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I decided that you didn't really need money, power, success, religion, a spouse, or kids to be happy. All you really needed was to feel superior.
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Ned Vizzini |
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90222b9
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O seu problema e que voce tem uma visao de mundo totalmente moldada pela depressao. -- Ned Vizzini, Uma historia meio que engracada
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Ned Vizzini |
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2881f3f
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I want there to be a Shift so bad. I want to feel my brain slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, and witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise, and I HAD incredible promise, and I spoke up in class because I was excited and smart about the world. I was the Shift so bad. I'm waiting for the phrase that will invoke it. It'll be like a miracle w..
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Ned Vizzini |
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e3901b6
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O seu problema e que voce tem uma visao de mundo totalmente moldada pela depressao.
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Ned Vizzini |
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15ca045
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It wasn't meant to be. Or maybe it was meant not to be.
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life-quotes
life-lessons
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Ned Vizzini |
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4356b60
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I was a kid; I had plenty more to do; I'd been through some crap but I was learning from it
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young-adult
mental-health
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Ned Vizzini |
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a24f213
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Life is not cured. Life is managed.
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life-quotes
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Ned Vizzini |
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b74fa83
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I was lying to this person; that meant we really knew each other.
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Ned Vizzini |
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96278da
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but then I decided I didn't want any regrets. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
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young-adult
depression
regrets
mental-health
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Ned Vizzini |
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c146d3a
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Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and lay in bed and looked the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.
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life-quotes
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Ned Vizzini |
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54626d1
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It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
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depression
funny-story
ned-vizzini
depression-quotes
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Ned Vizzini |
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607e37f
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Obstacles are those frightening things that appear when we take our mind off our goals
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Ned Vizzini |
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7a67f1c
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And I always look like I'm about to cry.
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Ned Vizzini |
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e10184e
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And what is that nightmare, Craig? Life.
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Ned Vizzini |
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9b3b63e
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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." "And what is that nightmare, Craig?" "Life." "Life is a nightmare." --
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Ned Vizzini |