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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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Twice
Sky
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Experience

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There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.
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Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.
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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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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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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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I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
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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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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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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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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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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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My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
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The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
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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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The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
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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 had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.
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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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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.
Frank McCourt