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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

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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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Better
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Hope

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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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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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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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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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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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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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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.
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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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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.
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I just want to not be me.
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We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.
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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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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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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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