Frank McCourt
Author
1930-08-19
Books by Frank McCourt
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Angela's Ashes
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Quotes by Frank McCourt
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I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.
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Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.
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You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
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Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.
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You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
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I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.
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For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place.
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I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn't sunk in.
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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.
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We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.
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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.
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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
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You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.
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If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman.
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Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.
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