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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?
Ned Vizzini
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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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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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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 had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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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 tough to get out of bed I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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