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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
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Dublin city
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I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book
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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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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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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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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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This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
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Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years
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There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.
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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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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
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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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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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I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.
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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
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There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.
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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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...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.
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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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