Nick Flynn

Quotes by Nick Flynn

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Writer, playwright, and poet · American

American writer, playwright, and poet

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death art torture alcohol dying power usa truth catharsis suicide cigarettes smoking wonder father blame fault 143 life 11 family fathers homelessness 131 certainty faith 122-123 bridges cities wandering writing

“My friend asked me if it had been cathartic, to write my memoir. I looked down at the sculptures—it was cathartic for me to look at them, but I could imagine it might have been hell to make them (I...”
— Nick Flynn
art catharsis

“I’ve come to believe that the function of torture in our society is not about getting information, in spite of what we might want to believe. It is merely about power. It tells the world that there...”
— Nick Flynn
power torture usa

“I was unable to throw myself in the ocean,” she writes, the handwriting more erratic as the painkillers seep into every cell, shutting out lights in empty rooms.”
— Nick Flynn
suicide

“I know cigarettes can kill & wonder why she wants to die.”
— Nick Flynn
cigarettes death smoking wonder

“But what of Ham? It didn’t matter if he told anyone about his drunken father or not, if he chided him or tried to dress him, if he lifted his struggling body back into bed, if he took his hand and ...”
— Nick Flynn
alcohol father

“It’s the way I walk through the world, carrying that fear, that the beloved will go, will die, and that I will be the one to blame.”
— Nick Flynn
blame fault