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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

Frank McCourt

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Frank McCourt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1930
Born: August 19
Died: 2009
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Francis McCourt
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They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.
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I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
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Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
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The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
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Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.
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First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
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Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay.
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There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.
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The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.
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It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
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Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.
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Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.
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Keep scribbling! Something will happen.
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It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen
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My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
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Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world
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If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.
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I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching
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There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art, such as it was, the stations of the cross in the church, the tradition, and the atmosphere of awe and mystery in the mass. The atmosphere of miracle, one of mainly mystery, that's what fascinates me.
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