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Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
— Malachy McCourt
Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.
— Malachy McCourt
I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.
— Malachy McCourt
My purpose in life always has been to avoid work. And I hear these people saying, "I work hard and I pay my taxes." Well, you're an asshole.
— Malachy McCourt
Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.
— Malachy McCourt
When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.
— Malachy McCourt
I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.
— Malachy McCourt
A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
— Malachy McCourt
Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.
— Malachy McCourt
I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
— Malachy McCourt
I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.
— Malachy McCourt
I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.
— Malachy McCourt
To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
— Malachy McCourt
Resentment is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die. - MALACHY MCCOURT
— Katherine Crowley
I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.
— Malachy McCourt
If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.
— Malachy McCourt
There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.
— Malachy McCourt
Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.
— Malachy McCourt
That's my punishment in hell, shoveling horseshit.
— Malachy McCourt
Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.
— Malachy McCourt
To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.
— Malachy McCourt
I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.
— Malachy McCourt
I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.
— Malachy McCourt
The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.
— Malachy McCourt
I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.
— Malachy McCourt
I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.
— Malachy McCourt
There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.
— Malachy McCourt
If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you're pissing on the present.
— Malachy McCourt
This is the place for me where every single dream I ever had came to fruition and I love it dearly. I love ya, New York.
— Malachy McCourt
Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
— Malachy McCourt
They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.
— Malachy McCourt
The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from.
— Malachy McCourt
The first item on a spiritual agenda is that I am not what I do, that I am what I am, and therefore I am a walking miracle, on a daily basis.
— Malachy McCourt
I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.
— Malachy McCourt
Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.
— Malachy McCourt
I would like to do away with all kind of - all weapons. A dream - totally. Including the bow an arrow.
— Malachy McCourt
That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.
— Malachy McCourt
In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
— Malachy McCourt