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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
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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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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get the language right.
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I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.
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There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.
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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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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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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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Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
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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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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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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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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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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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A lot of people think that writers are much cleverer than they actually are. No, they're not. But they're emotionally clever, and they go into a character, and they feel something that they weren't entirely aware of beforehand.
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