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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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She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.
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The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.
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Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
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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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She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.
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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 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 write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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There is always room for at least two truths.
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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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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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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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There are no days more full than those we go back to.
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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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Whatever you say, say nothing.
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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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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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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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