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Nick Flynn Quotes: By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place.  I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family.  But no one is offering any clear information.
         

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place.  I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family.  But no one is offering any clear information.


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Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.



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

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

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Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

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