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People come up to me and talk...

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

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

We never really had any kind ...

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

If somebody wants me to speak...

If somebody wants me to speak in, say, Chicago, a limousine picks me up at the door to brings me to the airport. I fly at the front of the plane, and a limousine meets me at the other end to take me to a grand hotel, and usually an envelope is left for me with a per diem, maybe $150-a-day walking around money, and then I go home.

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

One day a week should be set ...

One day a week should be set aside for field trips.

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

The part of Limerick we lived...

The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

We were supposed to stay over...

We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away.

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

You sail into the harbor, and...

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.'

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

They tell me I'm on 'Politica...

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

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

Actually, my mother and Alfie...

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

I'm a late bloomer. ...

I'm a late bloomer.

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

There's nothing in the world ...

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.

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

I certainly couldn't have wri...

I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because she would have been ashamed.

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

We were below welfare. We beg...

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

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

You're beginning to hear the ...

You're beginning to hear the tale of the common man and woman rather than the traditional memoir about the generals who just finished the war or the politicians who just rendered glorious service to the country.

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

I never really fit in anywher...

I never really fit in anywhere.

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

I think that's why you see so...

I think that's why you see so many Americans in Dublin look so sad: they are looking for the door through which they can begin to understand this place. I tell them, 'Go to the races.' I think it's the best place to start understanding the Irish.

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

Just luxuriate in a certain m...

Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

I think there's something abo...

I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

A lot of people say writers s...

A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a book by that 14-year-old gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, and I think, 'Now, what's she going to tell the world? And these 25-year-old rock stars, what are they going to tell the world?'

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

I never expected to write a b...

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.

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

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