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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.

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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Laugh
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Laughing
Hallways
Galore
Saying
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Bellow
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Bark
Trill
Head
Calls
Hiss
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Stroll
Simple
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Paragraphs
Many
Sing
Hallway

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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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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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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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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'm more interested in writing than in performing.
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When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
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Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
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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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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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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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Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.
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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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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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The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
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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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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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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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Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world
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