Quotes by Nick Flynn

Nick Flynn

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Alcohol

Past

Rivers

By the time I’m nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I’ve heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

Apples

Offering

World

Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

Buddhism

Meditation

Way

I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.

Crazy

School

Writing

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

Art

Beautiful

Eye

I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

Deeper

Inspired

My Friends

I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It’s my second or third time tripping, Emily’s first, and she’s understandably trepid. Awake all night, at one point I find her touching her reflection in a cruelly lit dorm bathroom, asking if she’ll ever be the same. I kiss her then for the first time and whisper, No.

Kissing

Night

Reflection

inside us, a flower taken whole, a field built inside.

Fields

Flower

Taken

Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it’s purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it’s going to fail.

Ego

Order

Self

On a good day I write, all day.

Good Day

Writing

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Alcohol

Apples

Art

Average

Beautiful

Book

Buddhism

Careers

Children

Church

Circles

Crazy

Creativity

Deeper

Ego

Eye

Feet

Fields

Flower

Glasses

Good Day

Inspired

Kissing

Lying

Madness

Manic

Maps

Meditation

My Friends

Night

Offering

Order

Past

Plato

Poet

Reflection

Rivers

Running

School

Self

Soldier

Surprise

Taken

Thinking

Want

Wartime

Way

World

Writing

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Quotes by Nick Flynn

Nick Flynn

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

By the time I’m nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I’ve heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

inside us, a flower taken whole, a field built inside.

On a good day I write, all day.

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