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Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.
– 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. We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us. – Colum McCann
  3. Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. – Colum McCann
  4. 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
  5. The repeated lies become history, but they don’t necessarily become the truth. – Colum McCann
  6. Pain’s nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get. – Colum McCann
  7. It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. – Colum McCann
  8. Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off. – Colum McCann
  9. One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory. – Colum McCann
  10. There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it. – Colum McCann
  11. Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification. – Colum McCann
  12. The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small. – Colum McCann
  13. …and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.  – Colum McCann
  14. All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can’t eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. – Colum McCann
  15. A good novel can be a doorstop to despair. – Colum McCann
  16. Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else. – Colum McCann
  17. The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no – Colum McCann
  18. When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  19. Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
  20. People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
  21. Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
  22. Stories are not real life, stories are pieces of morality made entertaining. – Matthew Jarpe
  23. Someday this life will end, but for the Christian death also marks a beginning-”the beginning of a new life with God that will last forever. – Billy Graham
  24. The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. – Ezra Pound
  25. A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning. – John Irving
  26. A question that always haunts me. Why can’t people just be real? It’s easier being real than pretend being real. Give yourself a chance. – Manasa Rao
  27. 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
  28. Some piously record ‘In the beginning God’, but I say ‘In the beginning hydrogen’. – Harlow Shapley
  29. There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine. – Charles Lamb
  30. Beginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun. – Amit Kalantri
  31. The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. – HG Wells
  32. Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity. – CJ Anderson
  33. Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness. – Osho
  34. Death is not the beginning of an endless deep, dark, silent night but the beginning of a bright, joyful, eternal light. – Debasish Mridha
  35. These stories always take us to some far away places which we can never visit in real life. – Viraj J Mahajan
  36. Without writers, stories would not be written,Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. – AngieMarie Delsante
  37. Once upon a time, a king came to earth to tell stories, and the stories contained the mystery of eternal life. – Jared C Wilson
  38. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light. – Kate DiCamillo
  39. And then they bid their final goodbye which marked the end of their story. And beginning of two new stories. – Crestless Wave
  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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