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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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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Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.
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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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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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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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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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About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.
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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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Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.
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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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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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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.
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We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what really was, what it meant.
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There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.
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Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.
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He might have been naive, but he didn't care he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.
Colum McCann
She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.
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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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