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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.
James Frey
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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
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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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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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America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.
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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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There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.
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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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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 can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.
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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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