Best Colum McCann Words
- She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse. Curse
- I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life. Courage
- I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not… Blind
- The tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We return to the… Bius
- The essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction. Deep
- The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity. Age
- Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic. Braver
- There is always room for at least two truths. Always Room
- What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident. Accumulation
- Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters,… Characters
- I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban. Class
- I think we need stories, and we need to tell the stories over and over and over not only to remind us, but to be… Able
- I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to… Dispossessed
- My wardrobe is drab. I could spend six weeks in the same jeans. Most everything I have is blue or black, but certainly not cool. Black
- The best writers attempt to become alternative historians. Alternative
- The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place.… All
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