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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.
Colum McCann
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Colum McCann
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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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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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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The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
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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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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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The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
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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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