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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
Discovery
Years
Thrilling
Literary

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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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There are no days more full than those we go back to.
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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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This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
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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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It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
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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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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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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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I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.
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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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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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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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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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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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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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Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.
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