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Only Quotes by Colum McCann
- 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.…
- The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for…
- He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.
- She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes…
- We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will…
- I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.
- A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.
- 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…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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