Malachy McCourt Quotes
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
Quotes to Explore
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
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I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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Free love sounds great.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I love funk and soul and Motown.
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Love, and do what you like.
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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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My inspiration is love and history.
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
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This does have, for me, a particular emotional experience.
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It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.
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Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
