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Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

Frank McCourt

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Frank McCourt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1930
Born: August 19
Died: 2009
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Screenwriter
Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
Francis McCourt
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The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
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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 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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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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When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
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Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?
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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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Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world
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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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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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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
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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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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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I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?
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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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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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It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
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Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.
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