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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.

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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Misery
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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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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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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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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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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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My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
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Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
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Keep scribbling! Something will happen.
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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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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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I'm more interested in writing than in performing.
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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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Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.
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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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