Author: James Frey
Quotes of Author: James Frey
La fede è ciò che si usa per opprimere, per negare, per giustificare, per giudicare nel nome di Dio. La fede è ciò che è stato usato come mezzo per razionalizzare più male in questo mondo di qualsiasi altra cosa nella storia. Se esistesse il Diavolo, la fede sarebbe la sua più grande invenzione. Con la fede puoi portare gli altri a credere in ciò che non esiste, e far sì che usino quella convinzione per distruggere tutto ciò che c'è di prezioso nel mondo. Li puoi portare a far propria un'idea di qualcosa di falso, e usare quell'idea per creare conflitto, violenza e morte. Se aprissi gli occhi, vedresti che la fine si avvicina, che il nostro mondo sta arrivando alla fine. E la fine si sta avvicinando, e il mondo sta finendo, a causa della fede. Si sta avvicinando perché Dio l'ha predetto. Perché l'uomo la provocherà. book-quoteWrote 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 wasn't going to light on fire or throw in a river. From there I found an agent, and we submitted it to publishers as a novel, a novel that told a version of the story of part of my life. At some point someone thought it would sell as a memoir, they asked me if I was okay with it as a memoir. I didn't give a shit, just wanted it to come out, just wanted the dream to finally come true. The publisher knew what they were buying. When it came out I asked what I should do about the fact that not all of it was true, they said no memoir is, just do the interviews. I was cocky and proud and believed in the book, and I went along with it, I lied, got swept up in it, and the book became hugely successful, and I kept lying. I hated doing it, and hated myself every time I did, but I didn't book-quote
