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Frank McCourt Quotes
«I will have the faith... not the faith they want me to have, but another kind of faith which is of my own invention.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«Something happened to the spirit in the famine, and they retreated into their caverns and into themselves. And they haven't come out.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«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.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«You don't see the streets crawling with priests and nuns the way you used to. A lot of the priests go around now in ordinary civilian clothes. And it's hard to distinguish a nun from a housewife anymore except they have a special kind of haircut.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«I'm more interested in writing than in performing.»
Author: Frank McCourt
«Kids are constantly comparing, especially teenagers, constantly comparing themselves with other people. And when you're ragged and you're physically, almost repulsive, as I was, with infected eyes and rotting teeth and so on, and clothes that were ragged, I had no self-esteem. How could I?»
Author: Frank McCourt