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I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

James Frey

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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
Blogger
Film Producer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
James Christopher Frey
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That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.
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I regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great that they keep people interested in literature.
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Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it.
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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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Faith is the fool's excuse.
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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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I stand, walk over to him, sit down on his bed, put my arms around him, hug him. He hugs me back strong and I can feel the shame coming through his arms. I am a Criminal and he is a Judge and I am white and he is black, but at this moment none of that matters. He is a man who needs a friends and I can be his friend.
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The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
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I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.
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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 love the process of being alone in a room.
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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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Love only brought me lonliness and horror.
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Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.
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For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.
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To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.
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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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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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There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched. We separate.
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