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Colum McCann
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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Dublin city
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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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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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Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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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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I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.
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There are no days more full than those we go back to.
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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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