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Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was non ov those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was non ov those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Approximate author period: c. 2009 AD · contemporary

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Colum McCann
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Approximate author period: c. 2009 AD · contemporary
Approximate author-period evidence for Colum McCann: documented activity in 2009. Wikidata Q966228, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q966228 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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