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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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I don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the only thing we have that can trump life itself.
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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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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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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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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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Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.
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That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.
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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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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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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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Whatever you say, say nothing.
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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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People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.
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She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.
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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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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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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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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
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