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Way back in my mid-20s, I started making notes. I would just jot things down: lists of street names, songs, peculiar turns of speech, jokes, whatever.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Back Down Jokes Just Lists Making Names Notes Peculiar Songs Speech Started Street Things Turns Way Whatever Would

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Some, like Mother Teresa, are born with a gene to help the poor, and some are born with a gene to write. I was born with a gene to tell my story, and I just had to.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Born Gene Had Help Just Like Mother Mother Teresa Poor Some Story Tell Write I Was Born

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It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: After Book Did Former Gives Keen Listening Me Now Satisfaction Seeing Students Those Very Wrote Years

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I knew I had to find my own way of teaching.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Find Had Knew My Own Own Teaching Way

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I thought everything would be different in America. It wasn't.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: America Be Different Different Everything Thought Would

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I hated school in Ireland.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Hated Ireland School

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You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your nose.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Bulls Fight Go Great Hemingway Like Nose Off Right Something Spain War Write You Your

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Teachers have a million stories, but nobody consults them.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Million Nobody Stories Teachers Them

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I couldn't even pick up the newspaper without saying, 'This is a fine piece of writing. I wish to hell I could write like this.'

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Could Even Fine Hell Like Newspaper Pick Piece Saying Up Wish Without Write Writing I Wish

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When I read about Joyce, I realised that there was no eight-till-one in his life: it was 24 hours a day for him.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: About Day Him His Hours Joyce Life Read Realised 24 Hours

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: August 19th, 1930

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