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'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

~Frank Lloyd Wright

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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

Topics: Back Behind Crawl Edifice His Intellectuals James Joyce Just Leaving Like Look Me Out Process Skin Slow Snake Stand Those Who Whole

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He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Back Belfast Brooklyn Came Drank Funeral He His His Way Making Making Up Mother Over States Think Three Up View Way Weeks Work I Think

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Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Actually Back Because Came Christmas Guess Lonely Mother Never She Stayed Three Vacation Weeks Years

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They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Back Bar Because Began Business Merchandise Mistake More Set Sip Than Them Us Well Which

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When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all.

~Frank Mccourt

Topics: Back Childhood How Look Survived Wonder I Wonder

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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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Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

~Frank Miller

Topics: Back Cause Church Coming Dodge Doing Horses Me Right Sheriff Shooting Think Up Weathered Women Youngsters

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What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

~Frank Miller

Topics: Back Bring Dreary Even Gotten Heroes Muscles Play Project Sense Superheroes Things Ugly Want

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I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.

~Frank Miller

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