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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Sometimes
Real
Life
Occur
Ballet
Beauty

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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
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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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The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.
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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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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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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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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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Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
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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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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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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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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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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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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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Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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