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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.
Frank McCourt
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Frank McCourt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1930
Born: August 19
Died: 2009
Died: July 19
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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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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
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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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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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The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
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The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
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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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Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.
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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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They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.
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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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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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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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The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
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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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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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Keep scribbling! Something will happen.
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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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