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The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.


Colum McCann

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went where He was supposed t...
COLUM MCCANN ...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.
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COLUM MCCANN I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
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COLUM MCCANN Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
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COLUM MCCANN There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.
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COLUM MCCANN We are being bought off by our affair with the contemporary drug of choice: ease.
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