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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.
Colum McCann
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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
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Screenwriter
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Dublin city
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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’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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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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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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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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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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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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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.
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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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There is always room for at least two truths.
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Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen.
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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