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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.

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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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what really was, what it meant.
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There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.
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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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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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Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
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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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...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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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.
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Whatever you say, say nothing.
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I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.
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That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.
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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
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About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.
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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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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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Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years
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There are no days more full than those we go back to.
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She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.
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