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  1. Colum McCann _ Dancer

    How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.
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  2. Colum McCann _ Dancer

    We have always absorbed our own disintegration.
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  3. Colum McCann _ Dancer

    Truth: When criticized you go berserk, but in your defense remember that it is those who calmly listen who never change.
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  4. Colum McCann _ Dancer

    My father had once told me the story of how, when he was in the work camp, a truckload of giant logs was brought in to be chopped. He was on ax duty with a gang of twelve. It was a dreadfully hot summer and each swing of the blade was torture. He hacked at a log and there was the unmistakable sound of metal hitting metal. He bent down and found a mushroom-shaped chunk of lead embedded in the trunk. A bullet. He counted the rings from the perimeter to the bullet and found they matched his age exactly.We never escape ourselves, he said to me years later.
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  5. Colum McCann _ Dancer

    Outside, the dark brushed the city and the wind unleashed the snow
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  6. Colum McCann _ Dancer

    So you want to be a dancer? I asked. I want to dance better than I already do, he said.
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  7. Colum McCann _ Dancer

    Once we had filled each other with desire, not remembrance.
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  8. Colum McCann _ Dancer

    You are a dancer for only a part of your life. The rest of the time you are walking around, thinking about it!
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  9. Colum McCann _ Dancer

    I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and that the memory weighed on her heavily. What monstrous things, our pasts, especially when they have been lovely. She had told a secret and now had the sadness of wondering how much deeper she might dig in order to keep the first secret fed."
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  10. Colum McCann _ Dancer

    If you are wise you step through the darkness only one foot at a time.
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  11. Colum McCann _ Dancer

    Watching them together slipped a knife between my ribs and hit my heart exactly.
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  12. Colum McCann _ Dancer

    What monstrous things, our pasts, especially when they have been lovely.
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