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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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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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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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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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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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Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
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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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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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Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.
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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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She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.
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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.
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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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He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.
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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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Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.
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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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The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.
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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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