"I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually."

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Source : "'Being Flynn': When Dad Needs To Take Shelter". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. February 29, 2012.

Nick Flynn

#Crazy Quotes #School Quotes #Writing Quotes

“This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.”

Source : Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.255, Simon and Schuster
“God never breaks His promises.”
“Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.”
“Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don`t just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness”
“The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.”
“We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.”
“I want to do something challenging and I want to take risks, but above all, I want people to be entertained...Because the only way of talking about some issues sometimes is through humor.”
“Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.”

Source : "Fiske WordPower: The Exclusive System to Learn, Not Just Memorize, Essential Words". Book by Edward Fiske et al., 2006.

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