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There are no days more full than those we go back to.
Colum McCann
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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.
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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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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn't matter sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable.
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That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.
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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 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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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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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 repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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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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I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.
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Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
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She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.
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There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.
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We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.
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It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.
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Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.
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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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There is always room for at least two truths.
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