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Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
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Cleveland
Ohio
James Christopher Frey
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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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I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.
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He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow.
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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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All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.
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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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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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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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I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.
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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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The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
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I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating the city seriously as a major economic and cultural power, as the embodiment of 21st century America.
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Faith is the fool's excuse.
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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.
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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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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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But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.
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I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.
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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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