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Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear. (James Frey)
Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself. View quote
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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. View quote
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Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage. View quote
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Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song? View quote
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I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going. View quote
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The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think men who can cry are strong men. View quote
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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. View quote
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All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost. (James Frey)
Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me. View quote
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Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront. View quote
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Love only brought me lonliness and horror. View quote
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What I know is that I can trust his eyes because what lives in them, lives in me. View quote
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I was weak and pathetic and I couldn't control myself. An explanation, especially a bullshit one, doesn't alter the circumstances. I need to change, I have to change, and at this point, change is my only option, unless I am ready to die. All that matters is that I make myself something else and someone else for the future. View quote
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When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last. View quote
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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. (James Frey)
I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it. View quote
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Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it. View quote
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The one word love means too little for what it is. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love. View quote
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I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never. View quote
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