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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Dublin city
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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.
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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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There is always room for at least two truths.
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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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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Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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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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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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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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There are no days more full than those we go back to.
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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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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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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
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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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