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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
Colum McCann
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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.
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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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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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One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrap your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief.
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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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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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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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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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