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The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
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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Francis McCourt
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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.
Frank McCourt
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
Frank McCourt
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
Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
Frank McCourt
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.
Frank McCourt
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.
Frank McCourt
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?
Frank McCourt
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.
Frank McCourt
I'm more interested in writing than in performing.
Frank McCourt
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
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.
Frank McCourt
I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching
Frank McCourt
Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.
Frank McCourt
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.
Frank McCourt
There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.
Frank McCourt
If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.
Frank McCourt
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
Frank McCourt
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.
Frank McCourt
The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
Frank McCourt
I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'
Frank McCourt
