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Perhaps it's chance. Or perhaps chance is just another way to try to convince ourselves that we are valuable.

— Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin (2009)

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People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time - but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

Let the Great World Spin (2009)

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

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At a certain stage every single thing can be a sign.

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Yet nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.

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He wondered if that was what the moment of death was about, the noise of the world and then ease away from it.

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