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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book
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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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She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.
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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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Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years
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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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There are no days more full than those we go back to.
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I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.
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There is always room for at least two truths.
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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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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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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.
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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
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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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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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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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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 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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