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There are no days more full than those we go back to.

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
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Dublin city
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I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book
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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what really was, what it meant.
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I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.
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I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.
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There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.
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One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.
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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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He might have been naive, but he didn't care he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.
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Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.
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...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.
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Whatever you say, say nothing.
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I don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the only thing we have that can trump life itself.
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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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