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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Flight
Oneself
Point
Reason
Enough

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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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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'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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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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This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
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Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
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