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Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Attracting Certain Come Details Just Like Magnet Memory Steel Will

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People come up to me and talk about the alcoholism in their family.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: About Come Family Me People Talk Up

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Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Easy Everyone Story Tell Write You

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In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Bloated Classes Public Public Schools Ridiculous Schools

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We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Below Bicycle Father Our People Pieces Repair Shoes Tires Tried Welfare Were

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I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Attended Fairly Had High High School Never Read School Well

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I was ashamed of it, of the poverty I came from.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Ashamed Came Poverty I Came

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A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a book by that 14-year-old gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, and I think, 'Now, what's she going to tell the world? And these 25-year-old rock stars, what are they going to tell the world?'

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: After Book Going Gymnast List Look Losing Lot Now People People Say Powers Rock Rock Stars Say See She Stars Start Tell Think World Writers I Think

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I've had experiences on both sides of the ocean and various classrooms and bedrooms around New York.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Around Bedrooms Both Both Sides Classrooms Experiences Had New New York Ocean Sides Various York

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If I have a cause, it's the cause of the teacher.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Cause Teacher

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: August 19th, 1930

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