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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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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Suicide
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Wells
Human
Functional
Humans
Sad
Well
Depression

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I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
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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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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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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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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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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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Time is a person-made concept.
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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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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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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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I like you a lot. Because you’re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that’s not a good reason, but I can’t help it if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [...] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face—
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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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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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Depression starts slow.
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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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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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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'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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