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> [“Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/literature-can-stop-my-heart-and-execute-me-for-a-moment-allow-me-to/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

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## More by Colum McCann

> [Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/give-life-long-enough-and-it-will-solve-all-your-problems-including/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/there-is-something-that-happens-to-the-mind-in-moments-of-terror/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

> [“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/the-short-sharp-shock-of-three-thousand-mother-two-hundred-mothers/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/i-m-not-so-sure-that-i-can-teach-people-how-to-you-know-write/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

> [“Once we had filled each other with desire, not remembrance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/once-we-had-filled-each-other-with-desire-not-remembrance/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

> [“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/how-long-ago-it-was-and-how-strange-but-all-dead-friends-come-to-life/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

> [“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/she-would-want-instead-to-recall-him-in-the-air-between-layers-of/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

> [Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/novels-are-more-difficult-simply-because-they-are-longer-and-require/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

> [It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/it-was-a-silence-that-heard-itself-awful-and-beautiful/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

> [I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/i-think-one-of-the-biggest-political-failures-and-the-biggest-social/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/bits-of-it-floating-in-the-air-he-said-it-s-like-dust-you-walk-about/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

> [“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/he-has-read-whole-volumes-on-the-philosophy-of-nonviolence-how-peace/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/she-s-always-thought-that-one-of-the-beauties-of-new-york-is-that-you/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/i-m-of-the-opinion-that-the-real-is-imagined-and-the-imagined-is/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/she-had-that-emigrant-s-sadness-she-would-never-go-back-to-her-old/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

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