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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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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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Love only brought me lonliness and horror.
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Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
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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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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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The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.
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They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.
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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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Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.
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I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.
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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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For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.
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We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.
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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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I've always wondered what it would be like if the Messiah, or Christ Returned, were actually alive and living in our society who would that person be, how we would identify them, how would they live and what would they believe in, how would society react to them? I decided to try and tell my idea of that story.
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Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.
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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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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.
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To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.
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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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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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