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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
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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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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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She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.
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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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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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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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