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You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you? — Frank McCourt

In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he discovered speakeasies and he rejoiced. — Frank McCourt

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

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever. — Frank McCourt

That's what he disliked about certain artists and writers. They interfered and pointed to everything as if you couldn't see it or read for yourself. — Frank McCourt

I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words. — Frank McCourt

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale. — Frank McCourt

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice. — Frank McCourt

I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in. — Frank McCourt

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know. — Frank McCourt

I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family ... — Frank McCourt

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse — Frank McCourt

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher. — Frank McCourt

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow. — Frank McCourt

They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic. — Frank McCourt

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so. — Frank McCourt

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching. — Frank McCourt

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him. — Frank McCourt

he'll make Catholics of us, — Frank McCourt

Teaching is bringing the news. — Frank McCourt

It's lovely to know that the world can't interfere with the inside of your head. — Frank McCourt

If 'tis a sin, I don't give a Fiddler's fart! — Frank McCourt

My childhood here ... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn. — Frank McCourt

After a full belly all is poetry. — Frank McCourt

I'm more interested in writing than in performing. — Frank McCourt

What are they, Dad? Cows, son. What are cows, Dad? Cows are cows, son. We — Frank McCourt

If you have anything to say, shut up! — Frank McCourt

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while. — Frank McCourt

I'm in New York, land of the free and home of the brave, but I'm supposed to behave as if I were in Limerick at all times. — Frank McCourt

Love her as in childhood
Through feeble, old and grey.
For you'll never miss a mother's love
Till she's buried beneath the clay. — Frank McCourt

You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging. — Frank McCourt

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book. — Frank McCourt

I say, Billy, what's the use in playing croquet when you're doomed?
He says, Frankie, what's the use of not playing croquet when you're doomed? — Frank McCourt

For many writers, the journal is their opportunity to be honest with them- selves - the greatest test of all. — Frank McCourt

A mother's love is a blessing
No matter where you roam.
Keep her while you have her,
You'll miss her when she's gone. — Frank McCourt

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit. — Frank McCourt

I was sick of my miserable childhood, too, the way it followed me across the Atlantic and kept nagging at me to be made public. — Frank McCourt

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave. — Frank McCourt

Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion. — Frank McCourt

I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy. — Frank McCourt

I felt so happy I could barely stay in my skin — Frank McCourt

A job is death without dignity. — Frank McCourt

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life. — Frank McCourt

For once, mam, my bladder isn't near my eye and why isn't it? — Frank McCourt

I don't believe in happiness anyway ... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery. — Frank McCourt

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely. — Frank McCourt

Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain. — Frank McCourt

Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve. — Frank McCourt

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it. — Frank McCourt

I don't give a fiddler's fart! — Frank McCourt

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. — Frank McCourt

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession. — Frank McCourt

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd. — Frank McCourt

Ooh, aren't we getting solemn, and where did I leave my soapbox? Look — Frank McCourt

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room. — Frank McCourt

The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss. — Frank McCourt

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. — Frank McCourt

I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future. — Frank McCourt

This is the situation in the public schools of America: The farther you travel from the classroom the greater your financial and professional rewards. — Frank McCourt

Keep scribbling! Something will happen. — Frank McCourt

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with. — Frank McCourt

That IS what journal writing is all about - showing ourselves to God. — Frank McCourt

Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world — Frank McCourt