Irish - Author | August 19, 1930 - July 19, 2009
The day I write my last word will be the day that I feel free.
Frank McCourt
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I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.
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I had moments with my father that were exquisite - the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mythological Irish warrior, are still magical to me.
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When I first went up to see my editor, I was with my agent, and my editor said, 'Well, what have you been doing all these years?' And my agent said, 'He's been in recovery. From his childhood.'
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I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn't sunk in.
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I was a houseman, the lowest. I was just above - in the hierarchy of jobs, I was just above the Puerto Rican dishwashers - just above, so I felt superior to them.
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Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.
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Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.
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On the last day of my teaching career, I was sitting in my apartment, having a glass of wine, thinking I'm glad I did it, that I had been somehow useful, that I had learned something.
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One day a week should be set aside for field trips.
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I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.
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When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.
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