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I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.
I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.
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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