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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.
Malachy McCourt
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Malachy McCourt
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 20
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New York City
New York
Malachy Gerard McCourt
Malachy G. McCourt
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The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.
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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've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.
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To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.
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Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
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To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
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Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.
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Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.
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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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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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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.
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I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.
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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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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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I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.
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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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