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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
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Dublin city
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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.
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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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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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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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