Irish - Author | August 19, 1930 - July 19, 2009
The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
Frank McCourt
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Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
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Every life is a mystery. There is nobody whose life is normal and boring.
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If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home on the train.
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You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is what everyone in the world has dreams of when they think about New York. And I thought, 'My God, I'm in Heaven. I'll be dancing down Fifth Avenue like Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers.'
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Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a balanced diet - what more do you need? Nobody got fat.
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The uncluttered life is the key to a good memory.
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People want real-life stories.
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Scatter my ashes on the Shannon.
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I never expected to write a book about a slum in Ireland that was going to catapult me, as they say, into some kind of - onto the best seller list.
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I never really fit in anywhere.
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You look at passers-by in Rome and think, 'Do they know what they have here?' You can say the same about Philadelphia. Do people know what went on here?
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