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Colum McCann
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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.
Colum McCann
The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
Colum McCann
One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.
Colum McCann
Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
Colum McCann
I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.
Colum McCann
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.
Colum McCann
Whatever you say, say nothing.
Colum McCann
He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
Colum McCann
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.
Colum McCann
She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.
Colum McCann
A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
Colum McCann
We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.
Colum McCann
There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.
Colum McCann
I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
Colum McCann
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
Colum McCann
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
Colum McCann
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.
Colum McCann
I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
Colum McCann
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.
Colum McCann
This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.
Colum McCann
