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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
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New York City
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Of course I wasn't abused. If I were things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.
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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 just want to not be me.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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Time is a person-made concept.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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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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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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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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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'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
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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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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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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'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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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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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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