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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
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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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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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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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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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A lot of people think that writers are much cleverer than they actually are. No, they're not. But they're emotionally clever, and they go into a character, and they feel something that they weren't entirely aware of beforehand.
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Whatever you say, say nothing.
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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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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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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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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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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.
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It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
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