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Life Quotes by James Frey

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Frey reminds us that chasing eternal life can make us ignore the present moment. He stresses that pain is real and must be faced, urging us to be harder than life’s hardships. At the same time he holds an optimistic view that life, despite its terror, is still extraordinary.

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Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

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The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.

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Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

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Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.

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I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.

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

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The way America works, and the way L.A. works, is a very small percentage of people get what they want out of…

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When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel…

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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.

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“Life is hard, Kid, you gotta be harder. You gotta take it on and fight for it and be a fucking man…

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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…

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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…

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I learned to read at a young age and I have always read voraciously. It is one of the few things, aside…

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So let the haters hate, let the doubters doubt, I stand by my book, and my life, and I won't dignify this…

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About life: "It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult unless I allow it to be. A…

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Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to…

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“That's how life works. You know it when you know it. They're nineteen and in love. Alone except for each other. Jobless…

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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…

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I close my eyes and I take a deep breath and I think about my life and how I ended up this…

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Life is hard, kid. you gotta be harder. you gotta take it on and fight for it and be a fucking man…

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Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your…

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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…

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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…

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“He smiles, even though he knows it will never be like that again, even though he knows the world no longer wants…

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“My life is routine. I wake up early in the morning. I brush my teeth. I sit on the floor of the…

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“This is not the life I want or who I want to be but I don’t know anything else. I have tried…

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“The secret to kicking ass in dumbshit Hollywood... Every time you meet someone, make a fucking impression. Make them think you're the…

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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,…

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I want to run or die or get fucked up. I want to be blind and dumb and have no heart. I…

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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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And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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“This is how it has always been with me. Give me something good, I’ll destroy it. Love me, I’ll destroy you. I…

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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…

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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…

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For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.

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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…

“There is no Higher Power or any God who is responsible for what I do and for what I have done and for who…