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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
Giving
Pain
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I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.
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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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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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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 grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.
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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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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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Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.
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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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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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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'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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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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There is always room for at least two truths.
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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.
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