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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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Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?
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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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But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.
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When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.
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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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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 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'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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I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right.
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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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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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I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.
James Frey
Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
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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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She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.
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People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.
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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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You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.
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I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.
James Frey
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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