Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.
– Colum McCann
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- Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. – Colum McCann
- The repeated lies become history, but they don’t necessarily become the truth. – Colum McCann
- 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
- Pain’s nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get. – Colum McCann
- We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us. – Colum McCann
- It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. – Colum McCann
- Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off. – Colum McCann
- One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory. – 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
- Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification. – Colum McCann
- The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small. – 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
- All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can’t eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. – Colum McCann
- A good novel can be a doorstop to despair. – Colum McCann
- Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. – Colum McCann
- The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no – Colum McCann
- Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. – Colum McCann
- Don’t limit yourself to someone else’s opinion of your capabilities. Be you. Dream, plan, execute! – Steve Maraboli
- Now that we have that settled, I want to focus my attention on something else or should I say someone else… That someone else is you. – Brey King
- Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. – Laura Lippman
- You can’t plan someone else’s future, and I fully plan to become someone else. – Stevie Mikayne
- Stop competing, stop judging, stop comparing, stop blaming and better you, for you. – Turcois Ominek
- Plans become Platitudes, if you don’t have Passion and Persistence to Execute them! – Manprit Kaur
- Every moment is a moment of hope, moment of beauty, a moment of joy and it is our life. – Debasish Mridha
- In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Do what no one else can do and you will become what no one else can become. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I needed someone to tell me how God could allow someone He loved to suffer so much when I wouldn’t do this to someone I hated. – Sarah Thebarge
- What good’s a black face if it means I’m just someone else’s property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else’s load, not my own? – Stacey Lee
- You yourself could be nothing more than a shadow, someone else’s dream who is, themselves, someone else’s. – Kelly Creagh
- Suffering so someone else didn’t have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else’s well being. – Jodi Picoult
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde
- Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. – Romain Gary
- We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. – F Sionil Jos
- Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
- We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own, and literature…Literature is a compass; – Thabo Jijana
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read – Oscar Wilde
- The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. – CS Lewis
- By dint of waiting, he hoped his heart would wear out and stop beating. What other way was there to stop loving someone? – AnneLaure Bondoux
- Become the destroyer of sects – become the breaker of privileges -“ become the messenger of equality -“ become the prophet of goodness. – Abhijit Naskar
- When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy. – Swami Dhyan Giten