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I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.
James Frey
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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
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Science Fiction Writer
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Cleveland
Ohio
James Christopher Frey
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It's the third book of the Bible, called The Final Testament of the Holy Bible.My idea of what the Messiah would be like if he were walking the streets of New York today. What would he believe? What would he preach? How would he live? With who?
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Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop their pants and moon passing passenger trains.
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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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There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
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Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.
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When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.
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The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.
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In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.
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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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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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Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.
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But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.
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Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.
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My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.
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The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.
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What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.
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I think men who can cry are strong men
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I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.
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To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.
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