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I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because she would have been ashamed.

~Frank Mccourt

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A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Entertainment Form Funeral Great Wake

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We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Europe High High School Look Pay Professor Scholars School School Teacher Spain Teacher Teachers Way You

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I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into - when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: About Battle Became Because Become First Going Had High High School Know Me Misconception New New York Prepared Right School School Teacher Teacher Wanted York Zone

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When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Anything Army Bill Came Chance Education Got Had High High School Like Me Nyu Out School Since Took I Came

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I would dream of going up to the 'New York Times' and asking them if I could please be a copy boy or let me scrub the toilets or something like that. But I couldn't rise to those heights.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Asking Boy Copy Could Dream Going Heights If I Could Like Me New New York New York Times Please Rise Scrub Something Them Those Times Toilets Up Would York

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I can do no more than tell the truth.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: More Tell Than Truth I Can

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People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!

~Frank Mccourt

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We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.

~Frank Mccourt

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I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the drawer and said, 'Well, I did that.'

~Frank Mccourt

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: August 19th, 1930

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