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