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Frank McCourt Quotes

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

My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time.

Mother Children Time Three Years

I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.

Learning School New York Writing New

I couldn't fit in the Irish community in New York. I was never one of the boys because they would talk about baseball or basketball, and I knew nothing about it.

Community Baseball New York New Talk

Even when I went to the Lion's Head in the Village, where all you journalists would hang out, I was always peripheral. I was never really part of anything except the classroom. That's where I belonged.

Lion You Village Never Classroom

There's nothing in the world like getting up in front of a high-school classroom in New York City. They won't give you a break if you don't hold them. There's no escape.

New York City World You New Escape

There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where we'd all be in some kind of native costume - which doesn't exist - and we'd be dancing at the crossroads, babbling away in Gaelic, going to Mass, everyone virginal and pure.

Vision Madness Country Kind Dancing

People come up to me and talk about the alcoholism in their family.

Family People Me Talk Up Come

Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.

Story Easy You Write Everyone Tell

We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people.

Stars People Enough Want Generals

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.

Ridiculous Public Bloated Classes

My dream was to have a Library of Congress catalogue number, that's all.

Library Dream Congress Number

We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.

Father Shoes People Bicycle Repair

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