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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
Feel
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Life
Charmed
Entirely
Blessed
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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 sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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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.
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...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.
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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 only telling you on the truth, he said. If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.
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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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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 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.
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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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There is always room for at least two truths.
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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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The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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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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He might have been naive, but he didn't care he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.
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Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.
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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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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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