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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
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James Christopher Frey
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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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But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.
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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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Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.
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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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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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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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What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.
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...we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love.
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Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.
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You don't have to follow anybody's rules.
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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 think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.
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The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.
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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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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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To live with angels and chase their dreams.
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What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.
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