Colum McCann Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin. [...] All I wanted was to make my life thrilling for a while: to take the oridinary objects of my days and make a different argument out of them, no obligations to my past.

  Colum McCann

  Past, Thinking, Skins

• I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

  Colum McCann

  Thinking, Past, Years

  "Colum McCann Links Communities With Storytelling Listen". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 26, 2012.

• That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.

  Colum McCann

  Mother, Writing, Son

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.107, Random House

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