Ned Vizzini Quotes - Page 3

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• A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.

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  Important Relationships, Important, Persons

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• No," mom says, looking at me in the eyes. "What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.

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  Mom, Morning, Eye

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• My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

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  Thinking, People, Television

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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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  Mouths, Want, Intention

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• Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is managed.

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  Drs, Life Is

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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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  Profound, Middle, Profound Truth

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• I think you run out of 'I love yous

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  Running, Thinking

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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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  Thinking, Brain, Want

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• deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.

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  Believe, Years, Special

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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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  Brain, Maps, Construction

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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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  Mean, Compliments You, People

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• What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. 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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  Home, Sleep, Trying

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• Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.

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  Doctors

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• They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.

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  Ashamed

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• You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?

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  Alive, Want, Able

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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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  Depression, Suicide, Lying

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• (...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

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  Kids, Back When

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• I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.

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  People, World, Sanctuary

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• What happened when you woke up?" "I was having a dream. I don’t know what it was, but when I woke up, I had this awful realization that I was awake. It hit me like a brick in the groin." "Like a brick in the groin, I see." "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." "Yes.

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  Dream, Wake Up, Realization

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• I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.

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  Problem, Funny Story, Mines

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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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  Mom, Smart, Thinking

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• Dad nods, looks me dead in the eyes; slowly and regretfully, he banishes all the smiling and joking from his face, and for once he's just my dad, watching his son who has fallen so low.

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  Dad, Eye, Son

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• I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment.

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  Distance, Doctors, Hands

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• I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?

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  Stills

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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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  I Smile, Asks, Jimmy

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