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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
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New York City
New York
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Breathe
Today

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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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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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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 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 feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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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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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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