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• We could not have found peace unless the desire for it was already here.

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• The conspiracy of women. We are in it together, make no mistake.

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• Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.

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• Pain’s nothing. Pain’s what you give, not what you get.

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• The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no.

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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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• You can count the dead, but you can’t count the cost. We’ve got no math for Heaven.

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• Even if you’re going to die, you might as well die pretty.

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• There is always room for at least two truths.

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• The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

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• Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

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• How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

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• Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

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• There are no days more full than those we go back to.

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• The repeated lies become history, but they don’t necessarily become the truth.

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• There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it.

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• People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody’s perfect.

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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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• Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

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• Good days, they come around the oddest corners.

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Colum McCann (41)

Birth:	28th February, 1965
Nationality:	American, Irish
Profession:	Writer

About

Colum McCann is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and now lives in New York. He is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts program at Hunter College, New York.

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