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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Dublin city
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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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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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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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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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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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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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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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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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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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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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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 real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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Whatever you say, say nothing.
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Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.
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There is always room for at least two truths.
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