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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Honesty
None
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Truth

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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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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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Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.
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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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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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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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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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There is always room for at least two truths.
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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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The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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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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Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.
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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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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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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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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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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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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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