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Famous Colum McCann Quotes
“How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.”
“You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven.”
“There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.”
“If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.”
“I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.”
“With all respects to heaven, I like it here.”
“The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.”
“This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.”
“So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.”
“Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.”
“I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.”
“The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.”
“Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.”
“There is always room for at least two truths.”
“What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.”
“The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.”
“Whatever you say, say nothing.”
“It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.”
“Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years”
“The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.”
“Life must pass through difficulty in order to achieve any modicum of beauty.”