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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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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Depression
Wake
Didn
Better
Much
Really
Time
Asleep
Nightmare

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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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