Frank McCourt Quotes
Autobiography should be more stringent. It should adhere more to the standards of journalism - assuming that journalism has the truth. The memoir gives you more scope, is more poetic, and allows you to play around with your own life.
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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The right of all of our citizens to enjoy fair and equal access to housing opportunities is guaranteed by our laws. The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to fiercely protecting those rights in order to ensure the quality of life all Americans deserve.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
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I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
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The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.
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I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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No country is perfect, but we have to be honest, and strive to expand freedoms, to broaden democracy. The bottom line is that when citizens cannot exercise their rights, the world has a responsibility to speak out.
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Autobiography should be more stringent. It should adhere more to the standards of journalism - assuming that journalism has the truth. The memoir gives you more scope, is more poetic, and allows you to play around with your own life.
