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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.

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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 luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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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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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
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Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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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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A lot of people think that writers are much cleverer than they actually are. No, they're not. But they're emotionally clever, and they go into a character, and they feel something that they weren't entirely aware of beforehand.
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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
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Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn't matter sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable.
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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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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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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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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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There is always room for at least two truths.
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We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.
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