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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
Colum McCann
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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Journalist
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Dublin city
Vanity
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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.
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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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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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Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.
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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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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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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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