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The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.
James Frey
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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
Blogger
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Science Fiction Writer
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Cleveland
Ohio
James Christopher Frey
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We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.
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I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar in alcohal created the craving, which I feed with candy and soda.
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Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something
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Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less. (James Frey, pg.88)
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Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books.
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They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.
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I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.
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Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?
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I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any of that stuff. It's about rhythm, and it's about what's in their [the character's] head, and what feels more natural. And it's about speed. I want things to move.
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I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.
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And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.
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The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.
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When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There's nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The World just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you.
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Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.
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Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.
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Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.
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