Malachy McCourt Quotes
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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
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I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.
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Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
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If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.
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As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
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A fate is not a punishment.
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I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
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Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
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If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.
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Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
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I've learned during my life that if I am in hell, I make my own glory. I've also been in glory, and perhaps I've made my own hell, but I certainly don't take anyone down with me.
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I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.
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What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
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Of hobbies there are many, many, kinds. For example, money-making. But money-making is not exactly a hobby, for it will scarcely carry a boy along in continuous joy, comfort and pleasure - to say nothing of a full-grown man. Money comes, not because it is ridden as a hobby, but because a real hobby is ridden so cleverly and carefully that it oozes out money on the side!
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That's my punishment in hell, shoveling horseshit.
