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On the last day of my teaching career, I was sitting in my apartment, having a glass of wine, thinking I'm glad I did it, that I had been somehow useful, that I had learned something. Frank McCourt

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book. Frank McCourt

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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

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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

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

Me Tell Lot North Politically Politically Incorrect Should Fun Incorrect

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

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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. Frank McCourt

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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. Frank McCourt

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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

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

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I'm a late bloomer. Frank McCourt

Late Late Bloomer

For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that I had to convey their dignity - the way they dealt with adversity and poverty - and their good humor. Frank McCourt

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A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment. Frank McCourt

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We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe. Frank McCourt

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I would dream of going up to the 'New York Times' and asking them if I could please be a copy boy or let me scrub the toilets or something like that. But I couldn't rise to those heights. Frank McCourt

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I can do no more than tell the truth. Frank McCourt

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