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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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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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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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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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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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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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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.
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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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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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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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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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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.
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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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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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Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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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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She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.
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