Looks Quotes by Colum McCann

8 Looks quotes by Colum McCann

Colum McCann treats looks as a narrative thread, weaving eight short lines that echo the intimacy of his longer prose. The voice feels like a quiet reading nook where each observation adds a subtle brushstroke to a larger picture.

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I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure…

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Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's…

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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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I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared…

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The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they…

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He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing…

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The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it,…

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And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This…

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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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“There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record…

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“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead…

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I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if…

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“Once we had filled each other with desire, not remembrance.”

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“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.”

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“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.”

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Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…

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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

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I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy;…

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“Bits of it floating in the air, he said. "It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's…

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“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence…

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“She’s always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing it…

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I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense that we…

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“She had that emigrant’s sadness—she would never go back to her old country—it was gone in more senses than one—but she was forever gazing…

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