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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.

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.
– Colum McCann

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  1. Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else. – Colum McCann
  2. Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. – Colum McCann
  3. We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us. – Colum McCann
  4. Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. – Colum McCann
  5. 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
  6. The repeated lies become history, but they don’t necessarily become the truth. – Colum McCann
  7. Pain’s nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get. – Colum McCann
  8. It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. – Colum McCann
  9. Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off. – Colum McCann
  10. One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory. – Colum McCann
  11. There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it. – Colum McCann
  12. Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification. – Colum McCann
  13. The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small. – Colum McCann
  14. …and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.  – Colum McCann
  15. All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can’t eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. – Colum McCann
  16. A good novel can be a doorstop to despair. – Colum McCann
  17. The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no – Colum McCann
  18. Your kindness, beauty, and simplicity remind me the stories about angels, and I was told they are just legends and myths. – MF Moonzajer
  19. Without writers, stories would not be written,Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. – AngieMarie Delsante
  20. Life consists of books. All experiences are stories to be told and must be written. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  21. Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. – Brian W Aldiss
  22. Your past has already been written and the words cannot be changed, but your future is waiting to be written; make it a bestseller. – Abigail Landsbrook
  23. Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn’t already written. It’s written every day.Some scars never heal.Then again, some do. – Brad Meltzer
  24. All experiences are stories to be told and must be written. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  25. Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind.And mind can only see things that already written in heart. – Toba Beta
  26. I had a few people ask me if I might one day write my own autobiography. I just told them, ‘It’s already being written; through my books. – TS Wieland
  27. I will forever remind you that you are gifted, strong and beautiful, exactly as you are.Will you forever remind yourself, too? – Scott Stabile
  28. Kill them. Kill them all. Remind the world what it means to be Arya. Remind the world what it is to walk with the gods. -“ Syoddhan Kauravya – Krishna Udayasankar
  29. Kill them. Kill them all. Remind the world what it means to be Arya. Remind the world what it is to walk with the gods.-“ Syoddhan Kauravyaw – Krishna Udayasankar
  30. I will forever remind you that you are gifted, strong and beautiful, exactly as you are. Will you forever remind yourself, too? – Scott Stabile
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
  34. …it’s not the stories – it’s the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told … – John Geddes
  35. Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
  36. We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. – F Sionil Jos
  37. Often we have to remind our minds that the job of ??????? is already taken. – Scott Stabile
  38. I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story. – Marilynn Halas
  39. By remembering how much we have to be grateful for we remind ourselves how beautifully God is already providing for our current needs. – Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
  40. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read – Oscar Wilde

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