Colum McCann Quotes - Page 3

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• 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 ever match it. I used to think it was difficult for children of folks who really loved each other, hard to get out from under that skin because sometimes it's just so comfortable you don't want to have to develop your own.

  Colum McCann

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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• She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

  Colum McCann

  Pain, People, Endurance

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.290, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

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  Pain, Giving

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.49, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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 fear of love. There is a fear of love.

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  Thinking, Rocks, Earth

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.156, Random House

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

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  Might, Wells, Dies

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.210, Random House

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• Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.

  Colum McCann

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

  "This Week in Fiction: Colum McCann" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. April 04, 2012.

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• The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime and the violence and the little shocks of good that crawled out from underneath the everyday.

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  Cities, Everyday, Littles

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.214, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.

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  Shapes, Imaginative

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

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  Said, Asks, Ifs

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.19, Random House

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• He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.

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  Lasts, Firsts, Steps

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.209, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

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  Important, Illusion, Possibility

  Colum McCann (2008). “Zoli: A Novel”, p.146, Random House

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• There is always room for at least two truths.

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  Two, Rooms

  Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic”, p.147, A&C Black

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• What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.

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  Incidents, Shelves, Accumulation

  Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic”, p.155, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.

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  Memories, Land, Impossible

  Colum McCann (2008). “Zoli: A Novel”, p.66, Random House

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• I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, World

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• Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

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  Fiction, Alive, Wonderful

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• The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldnt.

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  Being Ignored, Novelists, Benefits

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• That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.

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  Mother, Writing, Son

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.107, Random House

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• He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the depth, the form, the control, the twist of his wrist, the bend of his elbow, the tilt of his neck, notes digging into arteries, and he is in the air now, forcing the legs up beyond muscular memory, one last press of the thighs, an elongation of form, a loosening of human contour, he goes higher and is skyheld.

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  Memories, Knowing, Air

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• I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.

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  Class, Safe, Grew Up

  "Colum McCann Links Communities With Storytelling". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 26, 2012.

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• I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.

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  Honesty

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.261, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!

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  Book, Years, Different

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• I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

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  Writing, Organization, Association

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• Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

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  Sometimes, Function

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.155, Random House

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

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  Men, Rocks, Heaven

  Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing

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