"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals……" — Frank McCourt
"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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57 Quotes by Frank McCourt
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The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
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If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying…
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Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried…
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There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can…
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I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not…
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It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
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He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and…
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It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd…
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People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version:…
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I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family...
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Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on…
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I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is…
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