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This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Cobwebs
Designed
Darkness
Life

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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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Whatever you say, say nothing.
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