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I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Feels
Life
Charmed
Entirely
Blessed
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One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
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It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected.
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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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There are no days more full than those we go back to.
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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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There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.
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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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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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I don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the only thing we have that can trump life itself.
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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
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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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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.
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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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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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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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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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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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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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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 sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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