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

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Charmed
Entirely
Blessed
Lucky
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Feels
Life

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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.
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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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Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.
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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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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.
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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
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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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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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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
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I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.
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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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We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
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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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If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
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The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.
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Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen.
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Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
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Whatever you say, say nothing.
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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.
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