"If you're going to write about someone's life,……" — Nick Flynn
"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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41 Quotes by Nick Flynn
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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…
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Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are…
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Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.
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On a good day I write, all day.
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That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.
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When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.
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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…
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I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was…
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More Honor Quotes
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to…
— Aristotle
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
— Aristotle
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
— Aristotle
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People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and…
— Tom Arnold
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We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor…
— Mary Kay Ash
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
— Saint Augustine
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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like -…
— Jim Bakker
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity…
— Douglas Adams
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