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The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.
Colum McCann
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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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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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