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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
Human
Functional
Humans
Sad
Well
Depression
Suicide
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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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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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I just want to not be me.
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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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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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Time is a person-made concept.
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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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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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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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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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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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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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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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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That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
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