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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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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.
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I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.
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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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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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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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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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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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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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Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.
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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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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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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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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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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.
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