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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.
James Frey
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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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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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Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.
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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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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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I meet a third man he's an old man he trips in the street he falls and I help him up, walk him to the curb. He shakes my hand says keep the faith, young man. I ask him what he means, he says keep running and don't let them catch you.
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I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar in alcohal created the craving, which I feed with candy and soda.
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Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.
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I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank.
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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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Love only brought me lonliness and horror.
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The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
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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 regretted making a comment about Dave Eggers. I’ve never said anything about McSweeneys except that I admire what it is, and I think it’s great that they keep people interested in literature.
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The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.
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You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.
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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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A miracle is changing someone's life. Freeing them from whatever bonds them. Giving them the gift of being able to live the way they dream of living.
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