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I'm a complete and utter fiction. Then again, we all are.

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Academic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Dublin city
Fiction
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I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.
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Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.
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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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The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.
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Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years
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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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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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I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.
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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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I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
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There are no days more full than those we go back to.
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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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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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Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
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With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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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 the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
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The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
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