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Famous Colum McCann Quotes
“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.”
“Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.”
“Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.”
“Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.”
“The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.”
“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
“I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.”
“Good days, they come around the oddest corners.”
“The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.”
“It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.”
“Even if you're going to die, you might as well die pretty.”
“Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.”
“He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.”
“He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.”
“The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.”
“...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.”
“Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.”