Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
Colum McCannUltimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.
Colum McCannThe tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing mรถbius strip until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.
Colum McCannI am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book
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