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We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.

We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.
– Colum McCann

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  1. Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification. – Colum McCann
  2. Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. – Colum McCann
  3. Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. – 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. The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small. – Colum McCann
  12. …and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.  – Colum McCann
  13. All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can’t eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. – Colum McCann
  14. A good novel can be a doorstop to despair. – Colum McCann
  15. Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else. – 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. Be an echo of peace not an echo of bullets. – Debasish Mridha
  19. When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages. – Bud Gardner
  20. Words never fade away but echo on for eternity. Let your echo ring sweet. – Richelle E Goodrich
  21. Seldom do we think about how seldom we think. – David C Alves
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
  25. To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader. – Howard Schultz
  26. It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. – Marilynne Robinson
  27. If your destiny is glorious, a protracted journey filled with ups and downs is ahead of you. Sit down and strategize to outlast your challenges. – Assegid Habtewold
  28. Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast br???, iron and marble. – William Drummond
  29. Drama, can never outrun, outweigh, or outlast Dreams.Dreams, always has hope cheering it on.And Victory, is always waiting at the finish line. – Keith Hammond
  30. Drama, can never outrun, outweigh, or outlast Dreams.Dreams, always has hope cheering it on.And Victory, is always waiting at the finish line. – Keith Hammond
  31. Sometimes you can’t fight. Sometimes, some things, you have to outlast. – Hilari Bell
  32. Your mind controls your actions and that means when your mind gives you designed thoughts, your actions too are going to be designed actions! – Israelmore Ayivor
  33. Your right actions might hurt someone, so if required apologize for your right actions, but don’t stop taking right actions. – Amit Kalantri
  34. Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children – usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations. – Molly Ringwald
  35. It is certainly true that -˜actions speak louder than words,’ but words become as monuments to thoughts. – Anton Szandor LaVey
  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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