Famous Colum McCann Quotes
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.– Colum McCann
The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no– Colum McCann
Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.– Colum McCann
A good novel can be a doorstop to despair.– Colum McCann
All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can’t eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.– Colum McCann
…and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. – Colum McCann
The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.– Colum McCann
Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.– Colum McCann
There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it.– Colum McCann