Heart-s-desire Quote by Colum McCann Download Open image ““A single man, he said he loved women but preferred engines.”” — Colum McCann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Heart-s-desire Single man
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Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
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“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead husbands. The ones who still laundered their gone son's bed sheets by hand. The ones who kept an extra teacup at the end of the table, in case of miracles. The elegant ones, the angry ones,… — Colum McCann Copy Share
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“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
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“Bits of it floating in the air, he said. "It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's there and it's all coming down, covering everything. You're breathing it in. You touch it. You drink it. You eat it. But it's so fine you don't notice it. But you're covered in it. It's everywhere.… — Colum McCann Copy Share
“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence of all existents. The excluded middle ground. The surpassing of personality. The vanity of cultural superiority. The tension between individual conscience and collective responsibility. The need to proclaim again and again what has already been said.” — Colum McCann Copy Share
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