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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.

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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It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
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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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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.
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The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
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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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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?
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Keep scribbling! Something will happen.
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Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world
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I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?
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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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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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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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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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I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'
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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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