"There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it."

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Source : Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.263, Bloomsbury Publishing

Colum McCann

#Thinking Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“Alma: I rather suspect her of being in love with him. Martin: Her own husband? Monstrous! What a selfish woman!”
“optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.”
“The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.”
“Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.”
“Touch me again, and it will be your last act in life - Blue Eyes.”
“I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.”
“It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.”
“While it's nice to appreciate the fashion world... what makes you happy are real relationships and the moments you share with loved ones.”

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