Colum McCann Quotes about Silence

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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Beautiful, Silence, Awful

Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

Thinking, Silence, Ongoing

Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.301, Bloomsbury Publishing

...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.

Silence, Noise, Silence Love

Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.333, Random House