James Frey Quotes
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And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.
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The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces.
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What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.
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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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When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.
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The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
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And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.
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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'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.
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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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Love only brought me lonliness and horror.
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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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The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.
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I love the process of being alone in a room.
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One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.
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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'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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You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.
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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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And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.
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I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It's more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language.
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Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)
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People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.
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Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.
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In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Love.
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What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.
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But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.
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I think men who can cry are strong men
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To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.
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There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.
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