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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
Colum McCann
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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Journalist
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Dublin city
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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.
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She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.
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