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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
Life
Charmed
Entirely
Blessed
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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.
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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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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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He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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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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...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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There are no days more full than those we go back to.
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I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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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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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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I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared to go through that door and look at the world in all its grime and torment, and still find something of value, no matter how small.
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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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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.
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I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.
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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 point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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