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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.

Malachy McCourt

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Malachy McCourt
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 20
Actor
Politician
Writer
New York City
New York
Malachy Gerard McCourt
Malachy G. McCourt
Alcoholics
Obligation
Healing
Duty
Alcoholic

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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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Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Corporations can deduct their planes, all their office expenses, their machinery, their computers and Teleprompters and whatever else they have. They can deduct their yachts, they can deduct their limousines, their planes, everything.
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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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Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
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I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.
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Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.
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