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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
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Dublin city
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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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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
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Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.
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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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I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.
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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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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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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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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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I don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the only thing we have that can trump life itself.
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I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book
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I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.
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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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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 Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.
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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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I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.
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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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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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