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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
Colum McCann
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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
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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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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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Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
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We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what really was, what it meant.
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I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if I can get them and grab them by the scruff of the neck and say, you can do this, and if I see that fire in their eyes, that's when I think I know a writer.
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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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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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About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.
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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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...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.
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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.
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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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