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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
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Dublin city
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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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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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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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She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.
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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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People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.
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I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared to go through that door and look at the world in all its grime and torment, and still find something of value, no matter how small.
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He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.
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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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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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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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Whatever you say, say nothing.
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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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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.
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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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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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