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There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it.
– Colum McCann

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  1. Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. – Colum McCann
  2. 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
  3. The repeated lies become history, but they don’t necessarily become the truth. – Colum McCann
  4. Pain’s nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get. – Colum McCann
  5. We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us. – Colum McCann
  6. It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. – Colum McCann
  7. Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off. – Colum McCann
  8. One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory. – Colum McCann
  9. Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification. – Colum McCann
  10. The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small. – Colum McCann
  11. …and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.  – Colum McCann
  12. All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can’t eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. – Colum McCann
  13. A good novel can be a doorstop to despair. – Colum McCann
  14. Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else. – Colum McCann
  15. Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. – Colum McCann
  16. The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no – Colum McCann
  17. Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. – Colum McCann
  18. I think she’s too single for me, and she thinks I’m with two other people. She also thinks she thinks, I think. – Will Advise
  19. You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – R Buckminster Fuller
  20. You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – Richard Buckminster Bucky Fuller
  21. A person might be living with numerous people; but, if he doesn’t find a companion who thinks similarly as he thinks, he is still alone – Rajasaraswathii
  22. It doesn’t matter what people thinks of us what is important is what God thinks of us – Sunday Adelaja
  23. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy
  24. Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks. – Criss Jami
  25. It is an arrogant man that thinks himself a god.And an arrogant god, thought Tieren, looking to the window, that thinks himself a man. – VE Schwab
  26. I’m not surprised he wants to challenge me here, where no one can protect me. He thinks I’m a weak woman. He thinks wrong. – Heather Day Gilbert
  27. The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right. – Christopher Hitchens
  28. I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for. – Louise Erdrich
  29. If you thinks right the right things, then the right thinks will make the things right. – Sandip Thapa
  30. A thousand pounds for clothes–when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter! – Dodie Smith
  31. In essence, Satan doesn’t want you to believe what God thinks of Himself and what God thinks about you. – Ralph Harris
  32. An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  33. The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. – Christopher Hitchens
  34. The horse does of two things. He does what he thinks he’s supposed to do, or he does what he thinks he needs to do to survive. – Ray Hunt
  35. She thinks I’m a hussy,’ thought Scarlett. ‘And perhaps she’s right at that! – Margaret Mitchell
  36. So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of dreams. And then tomorrows. – Jim McCann
  37. I dig and plough at your command,’ I replied, ‘but you will not tell me how to shit. – Maria McCann
  38. I had no vote in the making of such a law, and I have no intention of abiding by it, either. – Jessica McCann
  39. How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson. – Maria McCann
  40. God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it. – Maria McCann

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