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Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Literary
Discovery
Years
Thrilling

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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
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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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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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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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He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.
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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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They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.
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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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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 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 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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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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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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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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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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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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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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