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Thinking Quotes by Colum McCann
- 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…
- 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…
- I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.
- You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.
- Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it…
- People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around…
- There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a…
- And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future…
- That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll…
- The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.
- We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.
- There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.
- 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…
- Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it…
- I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
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- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
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