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Frank McCourt Quotes

Irish - Author | August 19, 1930 - July 19, 2009

If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman.

You Sitting Ghost Make Holy Beside

They tell me I'm on 'Politically Incorrect' with Ollie North. That should be a lot of fun.

Fun Me Tell Politically Incorrect

It's like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the 'New Yorker' last summer, then getting published, then the best-seller list, the award, the movie deal, now this, a Pulitzer.

Waves Award You Summer New Now

When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.

Good Winning Nothing Race Kid Like

I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.

Writing Reading Loved Imagine Most

I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot of reading on my own, so I persuaded New York University to enroll me.

New York Me Reading Enough Down New

Early in my teaching days, the kids asked me the meaning of a poem. I replied, 'I don't know any more than you do. I have ideas. What are your ideas?' I realized then that we're all in the same boat. What does anybody know?

Me Ideas Boat Meaning You Early

I think there are two cities in the world - New York and Rome.

New York World Think New Rome Two

My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.

Father Mother New York Born New Met

There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed.

Bed First Up Affair Most Houses

Certain citizens claimed I had disgraced the fair name of the city of Limerick, that I had attacked the church, that I had despoiled my mother's name, and that if I returned to Limerick, I would surely be found hanging from a lamppost.

Mother City Name Church Fair Would

I didn't know you could write about yourself. Nobody ever told me about this.

Yourself Me You Nobody Know Write

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