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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
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Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen.
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Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
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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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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
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We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what really was, what it meant.
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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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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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Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
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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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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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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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