Quotes by : Colum McCann

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

An optimist is a braver cynic.

His body, his mind, his soul, had, for years, served only for the profit of others. He had his own people....

She expected no judgement and wanted no pity.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day....

All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.

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

The Irish were poor, but not enslaved. He had come here to hack away at the ropes that held American....

We get our voice from the voices of others. Read promiscuously. Imitate, copy, but become your own voice.....

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.