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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
Blogger
Film Producer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
James Christopher Frey
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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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When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.
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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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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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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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Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.
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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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I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating the city seriously as a major economic and cultural power, as the embodiment of 21st century America.
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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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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.
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Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says. Stay. Fight. Live. Take it.
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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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The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.
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There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.
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Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books.
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Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.
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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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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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Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.
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I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.
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