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Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
— Malachy McCourt
Don't be afraid to reinvent yourself. I have done it before and am doing it again. It makes life interesting.
— C.L. McCourt
Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.
— Malachy McCourt
I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.
— Malachy McCourt
My purpose in life always has been to avoid work. And I hear these people saying, "I work hard and I pay my taxes." Well, you're an asshole.
— Malachy McCourt
They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.
— Frank McCourt
I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.
— Frank McCourt
When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.
— Malachy McCourt
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
— Frank McCourt
The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
— Frank McCourt
I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.
— Frank McCourt
I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family ...
— Frank McCourt
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
— Frank McCourt
The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
— Frank McCourt
I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.
— Malachy McCourt
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
— Frank McCourt
A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
— Malachy McCourt
They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.
— Frank McCourt
I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.
— Frank McCourt
I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.
— Frank McCourt
Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.
— Malachy McCourt
he'll make Catholics of us,
— Frank McCourt
Teaching is bringing the news.
— Frank McCourt
I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
— Malachy McCourt
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.
— Malachy McCourt
I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.
— Malachy McCourt
To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
— Malachy McCourt
If 'tis a sin, I don't give a Fiddler's fart!
— Frank McCourt
My childhood here ... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
— Frank McCourt
Resentment is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die. - MALACHY MCCOURT
— Katherine Crowley
I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.
— Malachy McCourt
Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world
— Frank McCourt
To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.
— Malachy McCourt
I'm more interested in writing than in performing.
— Frank McCourt
Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.
— Malachy McCourt
That's my punishment in hell, shoveling horseshit.
— Malachy McCourt
Planning does not slow the process, it ensures the process can be executed in the first place.
— Cynthia McCourt
Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.
— Frank McCourt
Keep scribbling! Something will happen.
— Frank McCourt
Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.
— Malachy McCourt
For many writers, the journal is their opportunity to be honest with them- selves - the greatest test of all.
— Frank McCourt
I felt so happy I could barely stay in my skin
— Frank McCourt
I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.
— Malachy McCourt
The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.
— Malachy McCourt
I say, Billy, what's the use in playing croquet when you're doomed?He says, Frankie, what's the use of not playing croquet when you're doomed? — Frank McCourt
Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.
— Frank McCourt
The first item on a spiritual agenda is that I am not what I do, that I am what I am, and therefore I am a walking miracle, on a daily basis.
— Malachy McCourt
I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.
— Malachy McCourt
I'm in New York, land of the free and home of the brave, but I'm supposed to behave as if I were in Limerick at all times.
— Frank McCourt
If you have anything to say, shut up!
— Frank McCourt
The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
— Frank McCourt
I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.
— Malachy McCourt
After a full belly all is poetry.
— Frank McCourt
Love her as in childhoodThrough feeble, old and grey.
For you'll never miss a mother's love
Till she's buried beneath the clay. — Frank McCourt
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— Ned Colletti
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
— Frank McCourt
I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.
— Malachy McCourt
There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.
— Frank McCourt
Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.
— Malachy McCourt
Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.
— Frank McCourt
I would like to do away with all kind of - all weapons. A dream - totally. Including the bow an arrow.
— Malachy McCourt
That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.
— Malachy McCourt
Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.
— Frank McCourt
Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.
— Malachy McCourt
In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
— Malachy McCourt
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
— Malachy McCourt
If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you're pissing on the present.
— Malachy McCourt
A job is death without dignity.
— Frank McCourt
For once, mam, my bladder isn't near my eye and why isn't it?
— Frank McCourt
Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
— Malachy McCourt
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.
— Malachy McCourt
I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.
— Malachy McCourt
There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.
— Malachy McCourt
If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.
— Malachy McCourt
This is the place for me where every single dream I ever had came to fruition and I love it dearly. I love ya, New York.
— Malachy McCourt
They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.
— Malachy McCourt
The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
— Frank McCourt
The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from.
— Malachy McCourt
I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.
— Frank McCourt
If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.
— Frank McCourt
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
— Frank McCourt
I don't give a fiddler's fart!
— Frank McCourt