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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
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Dublin city
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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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...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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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.
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Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
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There is always room for at least two truths.
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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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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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There are no days more full than those we go back to.
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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 only telling you on the truth, he said. If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.
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He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn't matter sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable.
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I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book
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She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.
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I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.
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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
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