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I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'The Portrait,' all the moaning and the whingeing. I'm not knocking Joyce: we all owe him a debt. He's the one who made so much possible.

~Frank Mccourt

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I think that's why you see so many Americans in Dublin look so sad: they are looking for the door through which they can begin to understand this place. I tell them, 'Go to the races.' I think it's the best place to start understanding the Irish.

~Frank Mccourt

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One day a week should be set aside for field trips.

~Frank Mccourt

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

~Frank Mccourt

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

~Frank Mccourt

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

~Frank Mccourt

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First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

~Frank Mccourt

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

~Frank Mccourt

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And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural.

~Frank Mccourt

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I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

~Frank Mccourt

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: August 19th, 1930

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