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Nick Flynn is an American writer, playwright, and poet. His most recent publication is The Reenactments , which chronicles Flynn's experience during the making of Being Flynn, a 2012 film based on his acclaimed 2004 memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. Flynn is also the author of three collections of poetry, including Some Ether, which won the inaugural PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry in 1999, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. January 1960
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
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Famous Nick Flynn Quotes

“Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?”

Nick Flynn book Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

“There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.”

Nick Flynn book Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

“Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.”

Nick Flynn book Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

“Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one story which will save us, and so we lunge for another, and we feel safe again, if only for as long as we are telling it.”

Nick Flynn

“Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.”

Nick Flynn book Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

“Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart…”

Nick Flynn

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