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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

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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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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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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There is always room for at least two truths.
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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 know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.
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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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It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected.
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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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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.
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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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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.
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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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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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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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