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  • I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
    - Frank McCourt
  • I had moments with my father that were exquisite - the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mythological Irish warrior, are still magical to me.
    - Frank McCourt
  • We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
    - Frank McCourt
  • I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.
    - Frank McCourt
  • I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.
    - Frank McCourt
  • 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.
    - Frank McCourt
  • They tell me I'm on 'Politically Incorrect' with Ollie North. That should be a lot of fun.
    - Frank McCourt
  • I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot of reading on my own, so I persuaded New York University to enroll me.
    - Frank McCourt
  • Early in my teaching days, the kids asked me the meaning of a poem. I replied, 'I don't know any more than you do. I have ideas. What are your ideas?' I realized then that we're all in the same boat. What does anybody know?
    - Frank McCourt