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title: "3 Steel Quotes By Nick Flynn"
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> [I had to steel myself against this psychic devastation - to see your father on the street. It's hard enough to pick…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/i-had-to-steel-myself-against-this-psychic-devastation-to-see-your/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a39/nick-flynn-8678_actually_i-had-to-steel-myself-against-this-psych_530256.png)

> [In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/in-my-experience-whatever-happens-clings-to-us-like-barnacles-on-the/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fc/nick-flynn-8678_barnacles_in-my-experience-whatever-happens-clings_1506252.png)

> [Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/trinity-park-lies-directly-across-from-the-library-trinity-church/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/987/nick-flynn-8678_church_trinity-park-lies-directly-across-from-t_2409429.png)

## Other authors on Steel

## More by Nick Flynn

> [There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/there-are-many-ways-to-drown-only-the-most-obvious-wave-their-arms-as/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

> [In life you get one take, and it's perfect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/in-life-you-get-one-take-and-it-s-perfect/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/we-got-him-to-talk-to-a-psych-doctor-once-the-doctor-asked-if-he/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

> [Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/writers-especially-poets-are-particularly-prone-to-madness/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

> [“When I was really drunk, I started that stupid business with the bullet in my guts again. I was the only guy at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/when-i-was-really-drunk-i-started-that-stupid-business-with-the/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/memoir-is-actually-the-most-egoless-genre-even-though-it-might-seem/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

> [“He claims not to be drinking, but I don’t think he knows what this means.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/he-claims-not-to-be-drinking-but-i-don-t-think-he-knows-what-this/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

> [By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end to being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/by-the-time-i-make-my-way-to-the-border-of-mauritania-to-the-edge-of/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

> [“(2002) In Rome, month upon month, I struggled with how to structure the book about my father (He already had the water, he just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/2002-in-rome-month-upon-month-i-struggled-with-how-to-structure-the/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

> [In life you get one take, and it's perfect. It's strange, afterwards you might think I shouldn't have reacted that way, but that's the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/in-life-you-get-one-take-and-it-s-perfect-it-s-strange-afterwards-you/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

> [For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who were parents…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/for-years-before-i-became-a-father-i-would-try-to-spend-as-much-time/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

> [“The boat has become supreme isolation, chosen isolation, holding myself apart from the world, which I only dimly understand anyway. I can sit on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/the-boat-has-become-supreme-isolation-chosen-isolation-holding-myself/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/sometimes-i-d-see-my-father-walking-past-my-building-on-his-way-to/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

> [Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/everything-we-do-i-d-imagine-influences-everything-we-will-do/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

> [There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-flynn/there-is-a-physics-to-the-world-which-non-fiction-has-a-contract-to/)

[Nick Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-flynn/)

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