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Colum McCann Quotes

Life must pass through difficulty in order to achieve any modicum of beauty Picture Quote #1

Pain’s nothing. Pain’s what you give, not what you get Picture Quote #1

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life Picture Quote #1

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again Picture Quote #1

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell Picture Quote #1

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important Picture Quote #1

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He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last Picture Quote #1

The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly Picture Quote #1

The repeated lies become history, but they don’t necessarily become the truth Picture Quote #1

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do Picture Quote #1

It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from Picture Quote #1

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn’t know before Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don’t own Picture Quote #1

Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off Picture Quote #1

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last Picture Quote #1

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... it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise Picture Quote #1

Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me Picture Quote #1

There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it Picture Quote #1

This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for Picture Quote #1

So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them Picture Quote #1

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive Picture Quote #1

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I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year! Picture Quote #1

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Life must pass through difficulty in order to achieve any modicum of beauty (Colum McCann Quotes) Pain’s nothing. Pain’s what you give, not what you get (Colum McCann Quotes) I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life (Colum McCann Quotes) How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again (Colum McCann Quotes) Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell (Colum McCann Quotes) Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important (Colum McCann Quotes) He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last (Colum McCann Quotes) The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly (Colum McCann Quotes) The repeated lies become history, but they don’t necessarily become the truth (Colum McCann Quotes) Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do (Colum McCann Quotes) It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from (Colum McCann Quotes) I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn’t know before (Colum McCann Quotes) 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 (Colum McCann Quotes) The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come (Colum McCann Quotes) 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 (Colum McCann Quotes) Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don’t own (Colum McCann Quotes) Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off (Colum McCann Quotes) The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last (Colum McCann Quotes) ... it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise (Colum McCann Quotes) Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me (Colum McCann Quotes) There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it (Colum McCann Quotes) This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for (Colum McCann Quotes) So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them (Colum McCann Quotes) Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive (Colum McCann Quotes) I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year! (Colum McCann Quotes)

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