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1. "The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice." ~ Frank McCourt
2. "We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely." ~ Frank McCourt
3. "Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking." ~ Frank McCourt
4. "Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told." ~ Frank McCourt
5. "I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head." ~ Frank McCourt
6. "It's lovely to know that the world can't interfere with the inside of your head." ~ Frank McCourt
7. "Love her as in childhoodThrough feeble, old and grey.For you'll never miss a mother's loveTill she's buried beneath the clay." ~ Frank McCourt
8. "I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?" ~ Frank McCourt
9. "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
10. "...you, the privileged, the chosen, the pampered, with nothing to do but go to school, hang out, do a little studying, go to college, get into a money-making racket, grow into your fat forties, still whining, still complaining, when there are millions around the world who'd offer fingers and toes to be in your seats, nicely clothed, well fed, with the world by the balls." ~ Frank McCourt
11. "I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family..." ~ Frank McCourt
12. "Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand at the goddam Jersey shore and then turn down a woman with three kids hanging on by her fingernails." ~ Frank McCourt
13. "I appealed to my mother. I told her it wasn't fair the way the whole family was invading my dreams and she said, Arrah, for the love o' God, drink your tea and go to school and stop tormenting us with your dreams." ~ Frank McCourt
14. "There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it." ~ Frank McCourt
15. "With Angela drawn to the hangdog look and Malachy lonely after three months in jail, there was bound to be a knee-trmbler.A knee-trmbler is the act itself done up against a wall, man and woman up on their toes, straining so hard their knees tremble with the excitement that's in it." ~ Frank McCourt
16. "Nói chung, giáo d?c là gì? Chúng ta làm gì trong tru?ng này? Các em có th? nói r?ng các em mu?n t?t nghi?p d? lên du?c d?i h?c, chu?n b? s? nghi?p. Nhung, các em thân m?n ?, còn hon th? n?a co. Th?y dã ph?i t? h?i mình làm cái quái qu? gi trong l?p này. Th?y dã l?p cho mình m?t phuong trình. Bên trái t?m b?ng th?y vi?t m?t ch? S, bên ph?i m?t ch? T. Th?y v?ch m?t mui tên t? trái sang ph?i, t? S? HÃI sang T? DO.Th?y không nghi r?ng có ai d?t du?c t? do hoàn toàn, nhung di?u th?y cùng làm v?i các em là xua n?i s? hãi vào m?t góc." ~ Frank McCourt
17. "When she's not talking to him the house is heavy and cold and we know we're not supposed to talk to him either for fear she'll give us the bitter look. We know Dad has done the bad thing and we know you can make anyone suffer by not talking to him. Even little Michael knows that when Dad does the bad thing you don't talk to him from Friday to Monday and when he tries to lift you to his lap you run to Mam." ~ Frank McCourt
18. "You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace." ~ Frank McCourt
19. "They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic." ~ Frank McCourt
20. "After a full belly all is poetry." ~ Frank McCourt
21. "Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow." ~ Frank McCourt
22. "Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely." ~ Frank McCourt
23. "First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family." ~ Frank McCourt
24. "He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast." ~ Frank McCourt
25. "I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food." ~ Frank McCourt
26. "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
27. "I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in." ~ Frank McCourt
28. "I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book." ~ Frank McCourt
29. "I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book." ~ Frank McCourt
30. "I'm more interested in writing than in performing." ~ Frank McCourt
31. "I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so." ~ Frank McCourt
32. "My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn." ~ Frank McCourt
33. "You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave." ~ Frank McCourt
34. "I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable." ~ Frank McCourt
35. "And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural." ~ Frank McCourt
36. "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
37. "The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live." ~ Frank McCourt
38. "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
39. "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
40. "In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he discovered speakeasies and he rejoiced." ~ Frank McCourt
41. "Samuel Beckett was saying, in a new biography, that he could remember being in the womb, which, of course, is a bit far-fetched. But he's an Irishman, so nothing's too far-fetched." ~ Frank McCourt
42. "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
43. "Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve." ~ Frank McCourt
44. "I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future." ~ Frank McCourt
45. "A mother's love is a blessingNo matter where you roam.Keep her while you have her,You'll miss her when she's gone-- Angela's Ashes." ~ Frank McCourt
46. "I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets." ~ Frank McCourt
47. "In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw." ~ Frank McCourt
48. "I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit." ~ Frank McCourt
49. "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
50. "He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash him down and give him a big feed of rashers and eggs and mashed potatoes with loads of butter and salt and onions.I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling." ~ Frank McCourt
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Tekerlekler üzerinde kayan zindanimin karanliginda, yorgunlugun ta derinliklerinden gelismisçesine, sevdigim bir kenti, kendimi mutlu hissettigim belli bir saatin bütün bu alisilmis gürültülerini eskisi gibi, bir bir bulur gibi oldum. Gerginligini yitiren havada, gazete saticilarinin sesi, küçük parktaki son kuslarin ötüsü, sandviç saticilarinin bagrismasi, kentin yüksek dönemeçlerinde tramvaylarin çikardigi iniltili gicirtilar ve gögün daha gece limanin üzerine çökmeden önceki ugultusu, bütün bunlar, benim için, cezaevine düsmeden önce bildigim gözü kapali bir gezintiyi düzenliyordu. Evet, bu saat, bundan çok zaman önceleri, kendimi mutlu hissettigim bir saatti. Beni o zamanlar bekleyen, hep hafif ve deliksiz bir uykuydu. Ama yine de bir seyler degismisti. Yarini gözlerken, kendimi yeniden hücremde buluverdim. Yaz göklerinde uzanip giden o bildik yollar insani günahsiz uykulara da zindanlara da götürebiliyormus demek."
Author: Albert Camus

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