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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
James Frey
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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
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Cleveland
Ohio
James Christopher Frey
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Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop their pants and moon passing passenger trains.
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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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America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.
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My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.
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Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.
James Frey
Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.
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Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.
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People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.
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Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.
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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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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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Faith is the fool's excuse.
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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
On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine and I lean back to start reading it, I can see the women watching me out of the corner of her eye. She moves closer to the child and she leans over and kisses his forehead. I know why she does it and i don't blame her.
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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.
James Frey
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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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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Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.
James Frey
There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.
James Frey
I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.
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