I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on … - Colum McCann

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As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

Colum McCann

I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough. ’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.

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The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

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I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

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I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. In doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.

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The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

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Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

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