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Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Life
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Problems
Alive
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I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if I can get them and grab them by the scruff of the neck and say, you can do this, and if I see that fire in their eyes, that's when I think I know a writer.
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That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.
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