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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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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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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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Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.
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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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This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
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I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.
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Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.
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