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

-- Colum McCann

#Important Quotes #Illusion Quotes #Possibility Quotes

“The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.”
“Rather than, as an actor, I want the audience to like me, I'm going to smile beautifully and I've got everybody's sympathy - what about showing the moments when somebody is unbelievably petty? Or really selfish? The faults, the little things, those are the things that interested me about playing the character.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.”
“I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.”
“I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.”

Source : "Colum McCann Links Communities With Storytelling". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 26, 2012.
“Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail. . . . President Reagan is clearly failing.”
“A toxic person kills, and by kills I mean totally destroys teamwork.”
“It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.”

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