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The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.

James Frey

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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
Blogger
Film Producer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
James Christopher Frey
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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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The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.
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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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I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.
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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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