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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
Beauty
Sometimes
Real
Life
Occur
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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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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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There are no days more full than those we go back to.
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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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I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.
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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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Whatever you say, say nothing.
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I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.
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She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.
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Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years
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About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.
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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 not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if I can get them and grab them by the scruff of the neck and say, you can do this, and if I see that fire in their eyes, that's when I think I know a writer.
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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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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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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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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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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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