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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.

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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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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Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
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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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Keep scribbling! Something will happen.
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I'm more interested in writing than in performing.
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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
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The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
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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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My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
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Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
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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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Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
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