James Frey Short Quotes

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Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.

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I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed...

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Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

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What I know is that I can trust his eyes because what lives in them, lives in me.

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Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

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

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

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There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.

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

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Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

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Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

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Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.

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

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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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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?

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There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.

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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 glow.

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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.

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She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.

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I look at Hank and he nods and I nod and for a brief second I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.

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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 is to feel as if I wasn't alone.

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In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Love.

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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.

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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.

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I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which is great, you must first win that which is small.

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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.

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Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less.

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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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