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1 " They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better. "
― James Franco
2 " The man is angry, the manIs destructive, the man wants more.The woman is more, the woman is all. "
― James Franco , Straight James/Gay James
3 " It had happened. I had brought the dream out into reality and it had dissolved. It was just a dream and had found no purchase in the real world where it was dependent on other people for its realization. I wished that I could have sucked my words back inside where they had lived a colorful life of promise, had been nurtured by hope, and had never been tested "
― James Franco , Actors Anonymous
4 " All is good. Don't worry, the pain will help you. You'll get into some trouble, but it will work out in the end. "
5 " I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything. "
6 " Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself. "
7 " Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it. "
8 " You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim. "
9 " Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don't know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other's tapes and find out what each of us was really like. "
― James Franco , Palo Alto
10 " I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do. "
11 " This was the way the night had cashed in. Choices had been made and things happened, and here we were. It was sad, and funny. My life was made of this. Stuff like this. "
12 " Funny how new facts pop up and make you doubt that there's any goodness in life. Everyone pretends to be normal and be your friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don't know about... "
13 " There was a moon and it was on the water. A miniature moon rocking on the little waves. I always see nice images like that but I don’t know what to do with them. I guess you share them with someone. Or you write them down in a poem. I had so many of those little images, but I never shared them or wrote any of them down. "
14 " Barry had done it with her, the girl I loved, and it had meant nothing to him; Tanya would die and no one would care; and there were billions of bodies alive on earth and they would all be buried and ground into dirt; and Picasso was a master at age sixteen and I was a perfect shit. "
15 " I drank from the bottle again and it was a scary plunge because I always wanted to take too much. It hurt, but it was also impressive, like being in the hands of a bigger force. And because of that, a relief. "
16 " He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me. "
17 " The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders. "
18 " If this is the only life, then why I’m not just doing everything I want to do. "
19 " I always see nice images like that but I don't know what to do with them. I guess you share them with someone. Or you write them down in a poem. I had so many of those little images, but I never shared them or wrote any of them down. "
20 " Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area. "
