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• Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

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• We could not have found peace unless the desire for it was already here.

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• The conspiracy of women. We are in it together, make no mistake.

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• At a certain stage every single thing can be a sign.

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• Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.

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• Pain’s nothing. Pain’s what you give, not what you get.

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• If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.

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• An optimist is a braver cynic.

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• There was something of the beautiful failure about her.

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• But being rational about it didn’t cure it.

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• It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

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• The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no.

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• All the lives we could live, all the people we would never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.

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• Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

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• Pain is not what you get, it is what you give.

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• Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive

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• A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.

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• You can count the dead, but you can’t count the cost. We’ve got no math for Heaven.

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• Even if you’re going to die, you might as well die pretty.

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• 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.

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Colum McCann (41)

Birth:	28th February, 1965
Nationality:	American, Irish
Profession:	Writer

About

Colum McCann is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and now lives in New York. He is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts program at Hunter College, New York.

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