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James Frey

(1969) Blogger United States

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James Frey is a blogger from the United States, best known for A million little pieces.

Quick Facts About James Frey

Born: September 12, 1969
Nationality: United States
Profession: Blogger
Notable works: A million little pieces
Known for: Lorien Legacies, A Million Little Pieces, Endgame

About James Frey

James Christopher Frey is an American writer and businessman. His first two books, A Million Little Pieces (2003) and My Friend Leonard (2005), were bestsellers marketed as memoirs. Large parts of the books were later found to be exaggerated or fabricated, sparking a media controversy. His 2008 novel Bright Shiny Morning was similarly a bestseller.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by James Frey

“It is a touching story, and it is written more to convince than to tell. I am not convinced.”

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But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's…

Different

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“I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It wanders to a…

Hold my hand

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He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the…

Driving

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“Addiction is a decision. An individual wants something, whatever that something is, and makes a desicion to get it. Once they have…

Addiction

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“I start to cry. Tears begin running down my face and quiet sobs escape me. I don't know what I'm doing and…

Cry tears

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

Eternal life

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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,…

Ability

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

Sometimes

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“Thirty-six. If you want to shrink something, you must first expand it. If you want to get rid of something, you must…

Taoism

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The book is about drug addiction and alcoholism.

Addiction

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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…

Handle

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You don't have to follow anybody's rules.

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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…

Care

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

Higher power

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I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

Destroying

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Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no…

Agents

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More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted…

Feels

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Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.

Fall

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I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom…

Art

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I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high…

Body

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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…

Driving

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Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

Heart

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I, however, like black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience.…

Black

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“When I find a magazine and I lean back to start reading it, I can see the woman watching me out of…

Little Boy

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James Frey by topic

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