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I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap.

~Frank Mccourt

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I don't know anything about a stock!

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: About Anything Know Stock

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The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Dublin Georgian Houses Know Lived Part Pictures See Them Those You

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My sister died in Brooklyn.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Brooklyn Died Sister

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My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Children Died Five Had Half Half Years Mother Six Them Three Time Years

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I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Brilliant Classes Had High High School High Schools Known Learning Mathematicians New New York Number Producing School Schools Scientists Teaching Thought Up Which Worked Wound Writing York

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I never really fit in anywhere.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Anywhere Fit Never Really

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I couldn't fit in the Irish community in New York. I was never one of the boys because they would talk about baseball or basketball, and I knew nothing about it.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: About Baseball Basketball Because Boy Community Fit Irish Knew Never New New York Nothing Talk Would York

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There's nothing in the world like getting up in front of a high-school classroom in New York City. They won't give you a break if you don't hold them. There's no escape.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Break City Classroom Escape Front Getting Give High-School Hold Like New New York New York City Nothing Them Up World York You

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There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where we'd all be in some kind of native costume - which doesn't exist - and we'd be dancing at the crossroads, babbling away in Gaelic, going to Mass, everyone virginal and pure.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Away Costume Country Crossroads Dancing Everyone Exist Going Had Ireland Kind Madness Mass Minister Native Prime Prime Minister Pure Some Vision Where Which

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: August 19th, 1930

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