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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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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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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 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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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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The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.
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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.
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You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.
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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 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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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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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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I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.
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Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.
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I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.
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The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
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Love is love. It doesn't matter how or who you love. I don't believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women.
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But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.
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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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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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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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People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.
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