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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
Live
Much
Thinking
Life
Ordinary
Courage
Takes

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One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrap your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.
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There are no days more full than those we go back to.
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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.
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...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.
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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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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 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.
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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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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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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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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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Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.
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