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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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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
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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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Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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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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But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.
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Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
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I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.
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What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.
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