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It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.
Colum McCann
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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
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Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen.
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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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There is always room for at least two truths.
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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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Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.
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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
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They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.
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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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