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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
Moment
Felt
Moments
Another
Kind
Uncreated
Awake

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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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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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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
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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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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
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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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We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.
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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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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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Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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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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