"In life you get one take, and it's……" — 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 way you reacted. That's your take; that's all you get."
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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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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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If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and…
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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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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so…
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
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During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards…
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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year.…
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