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There is always room for at least two truths.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Dublin city
Truths
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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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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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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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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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Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.
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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book
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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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Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.
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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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Whatever you say, say nothing.
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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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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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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
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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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It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected.
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