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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
Thrilling
Literary
Discovery
Years

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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.
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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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There is always room for at least two truths.
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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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She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.
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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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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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Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.
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Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.
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She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.
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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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I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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Whatever you say, say nothing.
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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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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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He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn't matter sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable.
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