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When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.
Malachy McCourt
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Malachy McCourt
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 20
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New York City
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Malachy Gerard McCourt
Malachy G. McCourt
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The future has to do with fear. Don't attempt to come up here. Don't attempt to go forward, you were nobody, you are nobody, and you'll always be nothing, so don't even think about coming here because if you do, something awful will happen to you.
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I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.
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If you look up the word gab in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.
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They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.
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We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.
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It's one day at a time, that's all there is to it, and so I don't have to worry about it. All I do is, okay, I do not have to drink. And if I feel like it, I postpone it for ten minutes, and that way I find something else to do in the meantime.
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Never make any reference to the other person's family. You're just like your - because that is out, completely.
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There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.
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To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
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Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.
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I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.
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I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.
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Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.
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I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
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To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.
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The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.
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There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.
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I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.
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To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.
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