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

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Shouldn
Trade
Alive
Able

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One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.
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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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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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I just want to not be me.
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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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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
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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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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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Nobody had told me I was common.
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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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