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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
Feels
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Guess
Years
Moving
Sight
Things
Moments
Pride
Thinking
Back
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Everything
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Mistake
Touches
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Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.
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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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