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Them 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.…
- Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.
- I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
- 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.…
- Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like…
- The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.
- So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.
- 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,…
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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