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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
Real
Life
Occur
Ballet
Beauty
Sometimes

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The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.
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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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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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