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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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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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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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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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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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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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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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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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Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years
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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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A lot of people think that writers are much cleverer than they actually are. No, they're not. But they're emotionally clever, and they go into a character, and they feel something that they weren't entirely aware of beforehand.
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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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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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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.
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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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Whatever you say, say nothing.
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I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.
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