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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
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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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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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People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.
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We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what really was, what it meant.
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I'm only telling you on the truth, he said. If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.
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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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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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There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.
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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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...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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We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.
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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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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.
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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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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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