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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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James Christopher Frey
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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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I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.
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Love only brought me lonliness and horror.
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I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it, not because of some Asshole's thoughts who wrote the introduction.
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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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The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.
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Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.
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I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any of that stuff. It's about rhythm, and it's about what's in their [the character's] head, and what feels more natural. And it's about speed. I want things to move.
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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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I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.
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To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.
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Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
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I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.
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The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.
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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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Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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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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