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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Pain
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That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.
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Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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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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I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.
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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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I'm only telling you on the truth, he said. If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.
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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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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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One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrap your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief.
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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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Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.
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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'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years
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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what really was, what it meant.
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
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