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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.

Ned Vizzini

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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
Humans
Thing
Much
Confused
Never
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Time
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Hear
Thinking
Choices
Happy

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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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Depression starts slow.
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That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.
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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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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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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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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 didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
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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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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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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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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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Time is a person-made concept.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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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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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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