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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Truth
Repeated
Necessarily
Lies
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Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.
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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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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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