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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
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When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
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The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
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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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Keep scribbling! Something will happen.
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Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
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He says, You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor , your shoes might be broken , but your mind is a palace.
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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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Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told.
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I'm more interested in writing than in performing.
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I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.
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Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.
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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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The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
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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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Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world
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Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
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I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'
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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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A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.
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