James Frey Quotes - Page 3

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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.

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  Silly, Keys, Feet

  James Frey (2011). “The Final Testament”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

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  People, Way, Found

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• I have lived alone, I have fought alone, I have dealt with the pain alone. I will die alone. I think when I'm going to leave. I don’t want to be seen and I don’t want to be followed , I want to disappear quickly and quietly and without any drama , 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.

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  Pain, Drama, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Pain, Feelings, Suffering

  James Frey (2006). “My Friend Leonard”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any of that stuff. It's about rhythm, and it's about what's in their [the character's] head, and what feels more natural. And it's about speed. I want things to move.

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  Moving, Character, Care

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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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.

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  Book, Want, Trash

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.249, Anchor

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• It's the third book of the Bible, called The Final Testament of the Holy Bible.My idea of what the Messiah would be like if he were walking the streets of New York today. What would he believe? What would he preach? How would he live? With who?

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  New York, Believe, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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  Sweet, Pain, Men

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”

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• I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

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  Hurt, Would Be, Pieces

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.281, Anchor

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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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  Pain, Shock, Worst

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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.

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  Thinking, Voice, Done

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.

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  Book, Years, Two

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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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  Crazy, Book, Live Your Life

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• Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

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  Writing, Interest, Accurate

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• I think God is something that people use to avoid reality. I think faith allows people to reject what is right in front of our eyes, which is that thing, this life, this existence, this consciousness, or whatever word you want to use for it, is all we have, and all we'll ever have. I think people have faith because they want and need to believe in something, whatever that something is, because life can be hard and depressing and brutal if you don't.

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  Depressing, Believe, Eye

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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.

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  Darkness, Comfort, Would Be

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.139, Anchor

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• I think men who can cry are strong men

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  Strong, Men, Thinking

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.235, Anchor

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• I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank.

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  Suicide, Thinking, Sin

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.66, Anchor

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• It started when she passed me a note in English class. The note said you don't seem as awful as I hear you are. I passed one back that read: beware I am as awful as people say and worse. She laughed and I had a friend. She didn't become my Ally and I didn't ask her to or want her to but she became my friend and that was more than anyone else was willing to do.

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  Class, People, Awful

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.119, Anchor

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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.

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  Mean, Feelings, Littles

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”

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• America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.

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  Religious, Order, Practice

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• I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I had figured that out I tried to figure out what kind of book I could write that would be unlike anything anybody had ever seen. When I started writing A Million Little Pieces I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

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  Book, Writing, Style

  "The man who rewrote his life" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2006.

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• She feels and she cries. It is to be admired.

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  Cry, Feels

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.454, Anchor

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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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  Believe, Years, Punishment

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• What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.

  James Frey

  Life, Want, What Is The Meaning

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