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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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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Great
Irish
Tunes
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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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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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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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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 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.
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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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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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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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