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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.

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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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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He might have been naive, but he didn't care he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.
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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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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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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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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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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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I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.
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