Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin
Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book Three: All Hail and Hallelujah
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Let the Great World Spin is a novel by Colum McCann set mainly in New York City in the United States. The book won the 2009 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award, one of the most lucrative literary prizes in the world. Its title comes from the poem "Locksley Hall" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
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“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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“He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.”
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“Good days, they come around the oddest corners.”
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“It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.”
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“Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.”
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“The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.”
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“… it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.”
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“If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.”
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“I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.”
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“With all respects to heaven, I like it here.”
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“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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“The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.”
Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin
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