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Colum McCann

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Colum McCann Quotes

Total quotes: 4

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Colum McCann

Birthname

Birthday: February 28, 1965

Educated At: University Of Texas At Austin

Nationality: Ireland, United States Of America, Ireland

Occupations: Academic, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer

Total quotes: 4

“...most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry.”

— Colum McCann, Let The Great World Spin

Tagged: Love, romance, Love (The Concept)

“Teach me who I might be. Teach me what I can become. Teach me.”

— Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin: A Novel

Tagged: teach me, Becoming, guiding, Teach, Guide, self, self awareness, molding, shaping

“Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you’re lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who’ve been around awhile know it’s just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it’s never even there in the first place.”

— Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin: A Novel

Tagged: Love, Finding Love, Ideology

“When we make love, Clarence Nathan, feels like he is entering his own history.”

— Colum McCann, This Side of Brightness: A Novel

Tagged: Making Love, Personal History

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