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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.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Never
Shining
Life
Lessons
Walking
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Behind
Dark
Preacher
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Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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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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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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