"That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should……" — Nick Flynn

"That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us."

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41 Quotes by Nick Flynn

Nick Flynn has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him…
Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are…
Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel…
Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever…
Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it…
If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside…
Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.
If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and…
On a good day I write, all day.
When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.
Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of…
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 Soldier Quotes

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I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss… — Fred Armisen
You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers… — Joe Arpaio
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I… — Clara Barton
I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat? — Clara Barton
When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. — Frederic Bastiat
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. — Charles Baudelaire
I've spent enough time with soldiers to know that once they get to know you and they loosen up and… — Peter Berg
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before… — Otto von Bismarck
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,… — Ambrose Bierce
For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all… — Kathryn Bigelow
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a… — Orlando Bloom
At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it… — Earl Blumenauer

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