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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
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Life
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Ballet
Beauty

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Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.
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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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He might have been naive, but he didn't care he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.
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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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