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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
Colum McCann
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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Journalist
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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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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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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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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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This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
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I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.
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A lot of people think that writers are much cleverer than they actually are. No, they're not. But they're emotionally clever, and they go into a character, and they feel something that they weren't entirely aware of beforehand.
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I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.
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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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He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.
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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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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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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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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.
Colum McCann
We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
Colum McCann
She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.
Colum McCann
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.
Colum McCann
The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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He might have been naive, but he didn't care he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.
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