I'm young, but I'm already screwing up my life. I'm smart but not enough -- just smart enough to have problems.

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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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The thought trail one another in my brain running from the back up to the front and dripping down again under my chin: I'm no one; I'll never make it in my life; I'm about to get revealed as a fake, I've already been revealed as a fake but I don't know it yet; I know I'm a fake and pretend not to. All the good thoughts - the normal ones, the ones that have occasionally surfaced since last fall - scramble out the front of my brain in terror of what lives in my neck and spine. This is the worst it'll ever be

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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away

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There's so much more for me to be doing. I should be a success and I'm not and other people - younger people - are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting paid and winning scholarships and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

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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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I feel it in my pocket. I don't want to lose it. It's one of the only things that's making me me right now. Without my cell phone, who will I be? I won't have any friends because I don't have their numbers memorized. I'll barely have a family since I don't know their cell phone numbers, just their home line. I'll be like an animal.

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I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear,

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Doc, I'm not afraid of dying; I'm only afraid of living, and I want to put this bayonet through my stomach,

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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

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