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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
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We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.
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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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This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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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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I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.
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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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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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She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.
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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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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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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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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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One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.
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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.
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There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.
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It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected.
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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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