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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Braver
Cynic
Optimist
Cynicism
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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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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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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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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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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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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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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared to go through that door and look at the world in all its grime and torment, and still find something of value, no matter how small.
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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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I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.
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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years
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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
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There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.
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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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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.
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