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When I was a teacher, I'd walk into the classroom. I stood at the board. I was the man. I directed operations. I was an intellectual and artistic and moral traffic cop, and I - and I would direct the class, most of the time.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Artistic Board Class Classroom Cop Direct Directed Intellectual Man Moral Most Operations Stood Teacher Time Traffic Walk Would

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My dream was to have a Library of Congress catalogue number, that's all.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Catalogue Congress Dream Library Number

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For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: About Bed Fleas Gone Hair Kid Mattress Middle Misery Out Over Place Reason Red Red Hair Slept Some Spring Sticking Wrote

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There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Absurd Absurdity Much Poverty

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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.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Accomplishments America Because Came Clothes Community Doing Enough Everybody Except Food Glowing Good Had Prepared Surviving Teeth Where I Came

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Early in my teaching days, the kids asked me the meaning of a poem. I replied, 'I don't know any more than you do. I have ideas. What are your ideas?' I realized then that we're all in the same boat. What does anybody know?

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Any Anybody Asked Boat Days Does Early Ideas Kids Know Me Meaning Meaning Of More Poem Realized Replied Same Teaching Than Then You Your

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Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Always Around Burden Cool Great Kids Knowledge Look Looking Remember Want

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For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that I had to convey their dignity - the way they dealt with adversity and poverty - and their good humor.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Adversity Around Convey Dealt Dignity Family Felt Good Had Humor Lived Me People Poverty Reason Responsibility Some Way Who

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Ireland, once you live there, you're seduced by it.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Ireland Live Once Seduced You

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We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: About Enough Generals Had Had Enough Hear Movie Movie Stars Ordinary Ordinary People People Stars Want

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: August 19th, 1930

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