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I'm only telling you on the truth, he said. If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Telling
Stand
Asks
Truth

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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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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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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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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.
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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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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 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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One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.
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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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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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I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.
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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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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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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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Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
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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'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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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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