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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
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Thinking
Life
Ordinary
Courage
Takes
Live
Much

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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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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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They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.
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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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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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There is always room for at least two truths.
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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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