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...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.
Colum McCann
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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Screenwriter
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Dublin city
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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get the language right.
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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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I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared to go through that door and look at the world in all its grime and torment, and still find something of value, no matter how small.
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The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.
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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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I'm only telling you on the truth, he said. If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.
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It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.
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They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.
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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 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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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen.
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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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