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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Become
Best
Never
Dreamed
Allowed
Democracy
Stories

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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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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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...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.
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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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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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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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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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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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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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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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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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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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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
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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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Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.
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There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.
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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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