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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
Alive
Give
Problem
Enough
Giving
Long
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Life
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Problems

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He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.
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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.
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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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Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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There is always room for at least two truths.
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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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