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Frank McCourt Quotes
«As far as trying to trade him is concerned, that never happened. Derek expressed accountability, he faced this challenge like a man, and we only offered our support.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«I'm proof positive there's a tremendous amount to be learned about new experiences and situations.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«It's very important our general manager and manager are on the same page. Then everybody else gets on the same page, and it's something quite powerful when you're moving in the same direction. You can't be pulling and tugging in different directions.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«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.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«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.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«I don't absolve my father completely of his responsibility for what he did to us... I feel compassion, maybe. He had his demons. But I still can't understand how a man can walk away from children. And leave them to starve, as we nearly did, if it wasn't for my mother going out and begging.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«I was beginning to think that you could somehow miraculously dig down into your memory and bring back stuff that is stored there.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«I would just circle around certain incidents, like a vulture with carrion, until it yielded up some incident in my childhood, especially the religious stuff: the sacraments, the First Communion, and Confession, and Confirmation, and all of those turning points in the life of a little Irish Catholic boy.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«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.»
Author: Frank McCourt
