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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
Writer
Dublin city
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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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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Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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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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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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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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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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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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Whatever you say, say nothing.
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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
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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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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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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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