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Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
Colum McCann
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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Journalist
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Dublin city
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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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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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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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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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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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I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.
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