Colum McCann Quotes

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• The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
• Whatever you say, say nothing.
• It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.
• Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them. History changes them.…
• Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years
• I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared to go through…
• The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
• One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.
• Life must pass through difficulty in order to achieve any modicum of beauty.
• Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be…
• I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not…
• Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
• The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.
• The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
• One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
• We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
• I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!
• They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his…
• It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the…
• Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.

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