"I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art."

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Source : "Nick Flynn on Fatherhood, Suicide, Torture, Love, and Being Lost". Interview with Tom Matlack, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 09, 2010.

Nick Flynn

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“The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as members of the moral community, you really donâ€™t have a choice but to go vegan.”
“I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.”

Source : "Josh Fox: Activist and filmmaker" by Gerri Miller, www.mnn.com. May 2, 2012.
“I believe in the writer's mission. He receives it from the word, which carries its suffering and its hope within it. He questions the words, which question him. He accompanies the words, which accompany him. The initiative is shared, as if spontaneous.”

Source : Edmond Jabes, Edmond Jabès, Rosmarie Waldrop (1991). “The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Questions, The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book]”, p.58, Wesleyan University Press
“Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.”
“Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness.”
“I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible.”
“Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.”
“We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner world.”

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