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Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world

Frank McCourt

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Frank McCourt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1930
Born: August 19
Died: 2009
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
Francis McCourt
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Rise
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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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Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.
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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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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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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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Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
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There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.
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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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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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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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When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
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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 happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
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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 am teaching. Storytelling is teaching
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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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I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'
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Keep scribbling! Something will happen.
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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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