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You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.
Frank McCourt
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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
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The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
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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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
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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
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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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
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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
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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
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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
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I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.
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