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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.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Feel
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Touches
Sometimes
Grows
Roots
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Years
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Pride
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One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrap your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief.
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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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Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.
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Whatever you say, say nothing.
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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
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There is always room for at least two truths.
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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There are no days more full than those we go back to.
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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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I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.
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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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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.
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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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