Malachy McCourt Quotes
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Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
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Cute in Ireland meant cunning and devious … And I'm not sure that I'm not.
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They say what I did was ego-driven and name-dropping …Damn right it is. Who am I going to write about? People I didn't meet?
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In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
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I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.
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I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?
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It's one day at a time, that's all there is to it, and so I don't have to worry about it. All I do is, okay, I do not have to drink. And if I feel like it, I postpone it for ten minutes, and that way I find something else to do in the meantime.
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I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
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They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.
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I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.
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Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.
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Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it bray with donkey laughter, they fling it at the sky like paint pots full of rainbow colors.
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I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.
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I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.
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We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.
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The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.
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If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.
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I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.
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There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.
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There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.