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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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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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This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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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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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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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn't matter sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable.
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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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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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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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There is always room for at least two truths.
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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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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He might have been naive, but he didn't care he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.
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Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get the language right.
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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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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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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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