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Men Quotes by Colum McCann
- Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.
- She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof…
- He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.
- Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them.…
- The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young…
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