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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
Actually
Back
Because
Came
Christmas
Guess
Lonely
Mother
Never
She
Stayed
Three
Vacation
Weeks
Years
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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.
~ Frank McCourt
Always
Condemned
Course
Dancing
Excited
Get
Know
Member
Might
Natural
Opposite
Opposite Sex
Sex
Something
Touch
You
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First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
~ Frank McCourt
Always
Artistic
Book
Challenge
Creating
Experience
Family
Felt
First
First Of All
Form
Kind
Life
Make
Out
Particular
Period
Responsibility
Slum
Some
Something
Take
Then
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Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
~ Frank McCourt
Glow
Happiness
Hard
Just
Recall
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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.
~ Frank McCourt
Back
Belfast
Brooklyn
Came
Drank
Funeral
He
His
His Way
I Think
Making
Making Up
Mother
Over
States
Think
Three
Up
View
Way
Weeks
Work
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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.
~ Frank McCourt
Admire
As Far As
Certain
Church
Concerned
Despicable
Far
Go
God
Help
I Think
Institution
Nuns
Off
Own
Priests
Think
Who
Work
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I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.
~ Frank McCourt
Because
Domestic
Domestic Life
Go
Life
Me
Much
Ready
Too
Too Much
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I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
~ Frank McCourt
Accomplishments
America
Because
Came
Clothes
Community
Doing
Enough
Everybody
Except
Food
Glowing
Good
Had
I Came
Prepared
Surviving
Teeth
Where
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I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.
~ Frank McCourt
Afterlife
Any
Church
Contempt
Down
Get
Had
Held
Hell
Idea
Institution
Just
Kept
Me
Nothing
Now
Rid
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I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
~ Frank McCourt
Book
Happens
Helps
Just
Matter
Next
Nothing
Proceed
Usual
Writing
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I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.
~ Frank McCourt
Before
Book
Ever
I Think
Settled
Think
Title
Wrote
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I'm more interested in writing than in performing.
~ Frank McCourt
Interested
More
Performing
Than
Writing
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I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
~ Frank McCourt
Back
Behind
Crawl
Edifice
His
Intellectuals
James
James Joyce
Joyce
Just
Leaving
Like
Look
Me
Out
Process
Skin
Slow
Slow Process
Snake
Stand
Those
Who
Whole
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I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.
~ Frank McCourt
Been
Notebooks
Writing
Years
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My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
~ Frank McCourt
Actually
Before
Brooklyn
Childhood
Here
Limited
Long
Long Time
Out
Time
Very
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The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
~ Frank McCourt
Am
Experience
I Am
Interested
Main
Main Thing
Teacher
Thing
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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
~ Frank McCourt
Experience
Limit
Never
Same
Sky
Twice
You
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There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
~ Frank McCourt
Absurd
Absurdity
Much
Poverty
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They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.
~ Frank McCourt
Back
Bar
Because
Began
Business
Merchandise
Mistake
More
Set
Sip
Than
Them
Us
Well
Which
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We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
~ Frank McCourt
Any
Christmas
Fails
Had
Kind
Me
Memory
Never
Part
Really
Where
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19 August, 1930
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19 July, 2009
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