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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

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

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.

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One day a week should be set ...

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

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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.

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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

I was unloading sides of beef...

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.

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He came to the States in 1963...

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.

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Scatter my ashes on the Shann...

Scatter my ashes on the Shannon.

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And, of course, they've alway...

And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural.

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Early in my teaching days, th...

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?

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I became a teacher all right....

I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into - when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.

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Certain citizens claimed I ha...

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.

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Worse than the ordinary, mise...

Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

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My father and mother should h...

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

Frank McCourt 94 quotes

The happy childhood is hardly...

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

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Mam was always saying we had ...

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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Autobiography should be more ...

Autobiography should be more stringent. It should adhere more to the standards of journalism - assuming that journalism has the truth. The memoir gives you more scope, is more poetic, and allows you to play around with your own life.

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Kids all want to look cool, a...

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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When I came to America, I dre...

When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.

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