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

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  Drs, Life Is

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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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• 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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• I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.

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  Running, Thinking, Littles

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

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  Ashamed

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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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• I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn’t know I had that power.

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  Hurt, Feelings, Found

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• But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.

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  People, Lucky

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• And when you say the truth you get stronger.

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  Stronger

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• I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

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  Order, People, Tvs

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• The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.

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  Adults, Stuff

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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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• 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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  Mean, Important, Tvs

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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 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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• You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?" "Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.

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  Sleep, Games, Play

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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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• (...) 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'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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