Nick Flynn Quotes

• Quizá todos tengan una historia que pueda romperte el corazón.

  Nick Flynn

  Corazón, Historias, Romper

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• Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

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  Events, Stories, Who We Are

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

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  Past, Rivers, Alcohol

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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• Los escritores, especialmente los poetas, son especialmente propensos a la locura.

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  Madness, Poet, Manic

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• On a good day I write, all day.

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  Writing, Good Day

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• Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

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  Influence, Imagine

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• Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

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  Years, Maps, Want

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.119, Faber & Faber

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Writing, School

  "'Being Flynn': When Dad Needs To Take Shelter". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. February 29, 2012.

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• In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us texture. You can scrape all you want, you can, if you have money, hire someone else to scrape, but the barnacles will come back or at least leave a blemish on the steel.

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  Giving, Hull, Steel

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• What you fear your whole life comes to pass. You end up living toward it, you spend your life running from it but your foot is nailed to the sidewalk. You circle around it until you wear yourself own.

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  Running, Circles, Feet

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.168, Faber & Faber

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• We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul answered, I hear birds in the morning when everyone's sleeping, I hear trees rustling when no one's around.

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  Morning, Sleep, Psych

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one story which will save us, and so we lunge for another, and we feel safe again, if only for as long as we are telling it.

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  Fall, Long, Silence

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• Una parte de mí sabía que aparecería, que si me quedaba en un sitio el tiempo suficiente me encontraría, como te enseñan a hacer cuando estás perdido. Pero nunca nos enseñaron qué hacer si ambos están perdidos, y ambos terminan en el mismo lugar, esperando.

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  Taught Us, Long, Waiting

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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

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  Inspired, Deeper, My Friends

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• If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

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  Writing, Honor And Respect, Use

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• Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING DOWN. If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft.

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  Father, Moving, Men

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• 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.

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  Offering, Apples, World

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.

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  Writing, Needs, Print

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.191, Faber & Faber

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• The attention one gets from being a poet isnt great.

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  Attention, Poet

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• By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end to being lost. You can spend your entire life simply falling in that direction. It isn't a station you reach but just the general state of going down. Once you make it back, if you make it back, you will stand before your long-lost friends but in some essential way they will no longer know you.

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  Fall, Long, Essentials

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

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  Flower, Taken, Fields

  Nick Flynn (2015). “Blind Huber: Poems”, p.23, Macmillan

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• Puedo llorar con bastante facilidad. Se me saltan las lágrimas ante una bella obra de arte.

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  Hermoso, Arte, Ojo

  "Nick Flynn on Fatherhood, Suicide, Torture, Love, and Being Lost". Interview with Tom Matlack, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 09, 2010.

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• Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way—then because they also have depression, I think they’re more in touch with human suffering.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Average

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• 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.

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  Self, Order, Ego

  "Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me: Nick Flynn". Interview with Sari Botton, therumpus.net. January 24, 2011.

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• If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but insteadit used the word suddenly, a light coming onin an empty room. The telephonefell from my shoulder, a black parrot repeatingsomething happened, something awfula sunday, dusky. If it had beenterminal, we could have cradled heras she grew smaller, wiped her mouth,said good-bye. But it was sudden,how overnight we could be orphaned& the world became a bell we'd crawl inside& the ringing all we'd eat.

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  Heart, Sunday, Bye

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