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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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Giving

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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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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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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.
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She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.
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He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn't matter sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable.
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We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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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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Whatever you say, say nothing.
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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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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.
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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 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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