The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.

Colum McCann


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We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what really was, what it meant.

Colum McCann


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The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young out to die. Was was a get-together of the vain. They wanted it simple--hate your enemy, know nothing of him.

Colum McCann


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I was reminded of how years before, he had drifted away from one of our afternoon strolls and got surrounded by the tide - Corrigan, isolated on a sandbar, tangled in light, voices from the shores drifting over him, calling his name.

Colum McCann


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No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final.

Colum McCann

Tag: truth humanity awesomesauce



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

Colum McCann


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If you think of the world without people it's about the most perfect thing there ever is. It's all balanced and shit. But then come the people, and they fuck it up. It's like you got Aretha Franklin in your bedroom and she's just giving it her all, she's singing just for you, she's on fire...and then all of a sudden out pops Barry Manilow from behind the curtains.

Colum McCann


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Nobody falls halfway

Colum McCann


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

Colum McCann


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People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

Colum McCann

Tag: people perfection



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