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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
Ending
Admire
World

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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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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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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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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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This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
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I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we shape our stories, so anything that even happens on the news gets shaped in a certain way and gets a texture, and that the imagined can be real.
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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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I don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the only thing we have that can trump life itself.
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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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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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Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected.
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I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.
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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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