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Whatever you say, say nothing.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Whatever
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Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
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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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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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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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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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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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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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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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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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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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That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.
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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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There are no days more full than those we go back to.
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There is always room for at least two truths.
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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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Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.
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Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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