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I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office. (James Frey)
I don't know if I lost the courage to kill myself, or gained the strength not to, but I didn't do it. I kept living and drinking and doing drugs and fucking up. Eventually I ended up here. View quote
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Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible. View quote
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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. View quote
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The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict. View quote
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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. View quote
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For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again. View quote
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Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence. View quote
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Light streamed through one of the windows and across her face and I have never seen anything or anyone so beautiful in my life. If my heart had stopped at that moment I would have fallen happy and fallen full and I would have seen in life all that I had wanted to see and all that I needed to see. Fall. Let me fall. View quote
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I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it, not because of some Asshole's thoughts who wrote the introduction. View quote
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...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace. (James Frey)
People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics. View quote
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I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something that really mattered. Like something that I could live without, but would make life much harder if it were missing. And life is hard enough. Life is hard enough with everything we're given. View quote
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We live in a world that's very fast, where we get bombarded with huge amounts of information very quickly, and I have tried to tailor my voice to the times, which I think, writers, over the course of history - many have always done. View quote
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You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal. View quote
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I want as much time in the darkness as I can possibly have. The darkness provides cover, the darkness provides places to hide and the darkness provides comfort. Darkness usually comes around dinner, but dinner would be too obvious. View quote
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To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude. View quote
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There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable. View quote
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But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs. View quote
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Faith is the fool's excuse. View quote
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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. (James Frey)
But we are what we are, and humans will always hate. View quote
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I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for your defiance, you must always do it, even though the pain may be much. Too many times in our lives we do not do it, and we pay even more. View quote
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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. View quote
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What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be. View quote
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