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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 for who I am. There is no Higher Power or any God who will cure me. There is no Meeting where any amount of whining, complaining and blaming is going to make me feel any better.
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I dont want to make friends here. Why? I don't like goodbyes.
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I reach up and out and I put my arms around Leonard and I hug him. I don't know any words, so I let my actions speak. Strong, simple and deep appreciation. The actions speak true.
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I can deal with my life on those terms. It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult inless I allow it to be. A second is no more tha a second, a minute is no more tha a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time wil pass. Don't force or fear, don't control or lose control. Din't fight and don't stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure.
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that's how it works most of the time; we say the things that matter to people when it's already too late.
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We did what 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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life was simple, we were born and we were going to die. There was nothing for us before we were born, and there would be nothing for us after we died. While we were here we had choices. While we were alive we had choices. We could choose to be and do whatever we wanted.
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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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James Frey |
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I know a bit about the loss of dignity. I know that when you take away a man's dignity there is a hole, a deep black hole filled with despair, humiliation and self-hatred, filled with emptiness, shame and disgrace, filled with loss and isolation and Hell. It's a deep, dark, horrible fucking hole, and that hole is where people like me live our sad-ass, fucked-up, dignity-free, inhuman lives, and where we die, alone, miserable, wasted and for..
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The sun rises in a clear sky that moves from black to gray to white to deep, pure crystal blue. One in Georgia packs his things he's going to take a bus. Four in Mexico walk across scorched earth water in packs on their back. Two in Indiana best friends coming together they pack their best clothes while their parents wait to take them to the airport. One in Canada drives south. Sixty from China in a cargo container sail east. Four in New Yo..
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James Frey |
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No judgment, no condescension. Just hope.
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If there is beauty, there is ugliness. If there is good, there is bad. Being and nonbeing and difficult and easy and high and low and long and short and before and after and need, depend, create and define each other.
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James Frey |
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Don't tell people the way, just show them the results.
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James Frey |
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Why are you scared, John?' 'Because I know I'm not better.'
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More than anything, I dream of love, crazy crazy mad love. Not the love of rings and white dresses and churches, but of lust and insanity, the love where you can't stop touching, kissing, licking, sucking, and fucking. The love that breaks hearts, starts wars, ruins lives, the love that sears itself into your soul, that you can feel every time your heart beats, that scorches your memory and comes back to you whenever you're alone and it's q..
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James Frey |
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Los Angeles is a lonely city. Everyone is focused on advancement success fame and money, it is hard to adjust to a culture based on always wanting more, on never being satisfied.
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Learn to deal with that. It's the way of the world. You fight and struggle and work your ass off and then you die. Deal with that.
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James Frey |
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I can feel blood dripping from the wounds on my face and I can feel my heart beating and I can feel the weight of my life beginning to drop and I realize why dawn is called mourning.
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James Frey |
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There is truth, and that is all that matters. The truth.
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In 1918, a Chinese immigrant working in a Los Angeles noodle factory invented the fortune cookie. He did so believing that a cookie with a positive message in it would raise the spirits of the city's poor.
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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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James Frey |
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In 2001, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-arc), an avant-garde architecture school that has produced some of the prominent architects in the country, relocated to the Artists District
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When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There's nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The World just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you
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I think God is something that People use to avoid reality.
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People in here, People everywhere, they all want to take their own problems, usually created by themselves, and try to pass them off on someone or something else. I know my Mother and Father did the best they could and gave me the best they could and loved me the best they could and if anything, they are victims of me. I could say I'm flawed in my genetic makeup, that I have this disease and my addictions are caused by the presence of it, b..
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I didn't want to let go. I didn't want that moment to end and I didn't want that feeling to ever leave me. But all things leave us, all people, all feelings, no matter how we want them to stay, no matter how tight we hold on to them. We lose everything in life at some point.
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You want worship for what? For what you give? For how you treat us? For what you allow to happen? For the hatred that exists that you don't stop? For the violence that you don't stop? For the death that you don't stop? Man killing man killing women killing children that you don't stop. And you want worship? You want us on our knees? You want devotion? You want exaltation? You want faith? A crown of thorns pressed into the skull bleeding at ..
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James Frey |
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In 1935, the Los Angeles Police Department, via mayoral directive, sends a battalion of police officers to the Nevada border to stop hitchhikers, primarily Mexican nationals, from entering the state of California. They return after four days and report that they were unable to stem the flow of immigration.
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Twenty-nine cents of every tax dollar collected is spent on law enforcement. Fifteen cents of every tax dollar collected is spent on sewage collection and treatment. Eight cents of every tax dollar collected is spent on road maintenance. One-point-five cents of every tax dollar collected is spent on education.
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I want to run or die or get fucked up
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James Frey |
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My mind is filled with one thought and it runs through over and over and over.
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James Frey |
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That was the way it worked there. Blame the fuck-up, feel sorry for the football Hero.
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James Frey |
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I am alone. I have no one to talk to and no one to call
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James Frey |
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There are three shelves with about forty books on each shelf. As I look through them, I am hoping for something that will take me away from here.
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A small portion of Mahatma Gandhi's ashes are enshrined at the Self Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine Temple in Pacific Palisades. They are the only portion of Gandhi's remains that are kept anywhere outside of India.
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They live in cardbox encampments, tin shacks, they live in tents and sleeping bags, they live on the ground. They yell at each other, scream at each other, sleep with each other, do drugs and drink with each other, fuck each other, kill each other. They
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I could be hurt by something other than myself.
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Wrote the fucking book. I remember when I finished it. It was the middle of the night. I had been working on it for a year. I was alone and tired and it was dark, probably 4 a.m. I wrote the last word and I stared at it and I burst into tears. Just sobbed. Face in my hands, for probably an hour, just sat and sobbed. I was the only one who cared, the only one who believed, and after all those years, I had done it, I had written a book that I..
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Show me what's in your heart and your eyes. I don't give a fuck about the color of your skin or the God you worship.
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E folle. Folle e vivere la tua vita secondo un libro scritto da qualcuno che non poteva immaginare come sarebbe stata la tua vita. [...] Guardati intorno. Questo mondo non e quel mondo. Quel mondo e morto. Quei libri furono scritti per quel mondo. Quei libri sono morti. Dovrebbero essere portati via da ogni chiesa della terra e riciclati, cosi almeno potrebbero fare un po' di bene in questo mondo. Le copie piu antiche e piu belle sono curio..
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La fede e cio che si usa per opprimere, per negare, per giustificare, per giudicare nel nome di Dio. La fede e cio che e stato usato come mezzo per razionalizzare piu male in questo mondo di qualsiasi altra cosa nella storia. Se esistesse il Diavolo, la fede sarebbe la sua piu grande invenzione. Con la fede puoi portare gli altri a credere in cio che non esiste, e far si che usino quella convinzione per distruggere tutto cio che c'e di prez..
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Dio non ci da il dono della vita eterna. Il dono e la vita che abbiamo, e quando e finita e bell'e finita. [...] E tutto quello che abbiamo al mondo sono gli altri. E tutto quello che abbiamo con loro e l'amore. E non l'amore come in qualche canzoncina da coglionazzi. Ma l'amore che e prendersi cura a vicenda, e scoparci a vicenda, e lasciarci vivere a vicenda come vogliamo vivere. E proteggerci a vicenda da tutta la merda che la vita ci sc..
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James Frey |
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She told me that living life as a Prisoner was a waste of life and that freedom, even a second of freedom, was worth more than a lifetime of bondage.
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James Frey |
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Life is hard, deal with it. Working sucks, deal with it.
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