"I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it."

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Colum McCann

“Got to be who you are in this world, no matter what.”
“Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.”
“Once in awhile you come across a company that is completely and utterly mis-priced,”
“Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.”

Source : "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, transcripts.cnn.com. June 28, 2013.
“You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I don't you like you, either.”
“We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.”
“Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die. That something was my tough and tenacious soul.”
“And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it.”

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