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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
Didn
Better
Much
Really
Time
Asleep
Nightmare
Depression
Wake

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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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Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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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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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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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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I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.
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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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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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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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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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I just want to not be me.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
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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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