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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Days
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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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The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.
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Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.
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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.
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I'm only telling you on the truth, he said. If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.
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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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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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He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.
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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.
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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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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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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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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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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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She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.
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Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen.
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This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
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