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" Every life is a mystery. There is nobody whose life is normal and boring. "
Frank McCourt
Mystery
Boring
Life
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" My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born. "
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" When I read about Joyce, I realised that there was no eight-till-one in his life: it was 24 hours a day for him. "
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" The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher. "
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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. "
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" I don't see myself as either Irish or American, I'm a New Yorker. "
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" It's like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the 'New Yorker' last summer, then getting published, then the best-seller list, the award, the movie deal, now this, a Pulitzer. "
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" When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race. "
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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. "
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" I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn't sunk in. "
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Prize
Still
Won
" My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time. "
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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. "
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Way
Nothing
" I'm a late bloomer. "
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Late Bloomer
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" I learned the significance of my own insignificant life. "
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Own
My Own
" The happy childhood is hardly worth your while. "
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" I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine. "
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Imagine
Loved
" Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list. "
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Like
People
Memoirs
" The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice. "
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Experience
Limit
Never
" The uncluttered life is the key to a good memory. "
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Life
Memory
Good Memory
" I couldn't even pick up the newspaper without saying, 'This is a fine piece of writing. I wish to hell I could write like this.' "
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Hell
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" Sure, I went through my 'J'accuse' phase. I was so angry for so long, I could hardly have a conversation without getting into an argument. And it was only when I felt I could finally distance myself from my past that I began to write about what happened - not just to me, but to lots of young people. I think my story is a cautionary tale. "
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Past
Think
People
" Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. "
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Childhood
Ordinary
Miserable
" We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely. "
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Memory
Christmas
Had
" In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous. "
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Ridiculous
Public Schools
Public
" I can do no more than tell the truth. "
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Truth
Than
Tell
" At 66, you're supposed to die or get hemorrhoids. "
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Get
You
Supposed
" 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. "
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" We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away. "
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Boston
Right
" You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave. "
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" I never really fit in anywhere. "
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Anywhere
Really
Never