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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
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Full
Days
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I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared to go through that door and look at the world in all its grime and torment, and still find something of value, no matter how small.
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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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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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She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.
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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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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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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.
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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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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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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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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 luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.
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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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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
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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.
Colum McCann