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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.

Frank McCourt

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Frank McCourt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1930
Born: August 19
Died: 2009
Died: July 19
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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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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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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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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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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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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 sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
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The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
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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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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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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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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'm more interested in writing than in performing.
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I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching
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Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
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The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
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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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When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
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Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.
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Keep scribbling! Something will happen.
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