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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Moments
Another
Kind
Uncreated
Awake
Moment
Felt

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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen.
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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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One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrap your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief.
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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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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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...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'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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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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