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Francis McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer. He was the brother of actor and politician Malachy McCourt.
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If there was a circle, I was never a part of it. I prowled the periphery.
Teacher Man (2005)
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
Angela's Ashes (1996)
I like the lemon meringue pie but I don't like the way Americans leave out the 'r' at the end of a word.
Tis (2000)
He is a literary genius. Also the most nonjudgmental decent guy. He forgives.
It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
Angela's Ashes (1996)
There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.
Angela's Ashes (1996)
I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'
Angela's Ashes (1996)
I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family.
Tis (2000)
But I don't know how I'll ever get a college degree and rise in the world with no high school diploma and eyes like piss holes in the snow, as everyone tells me.
Tis (2000)
Why can't this priest go back to Los Angeles and leave me alone? Why is he taking me to lunch when he should be out there visiting the sick and the dying? That's what priests are for.
Tis (2000)
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.
Angela's Ashes (1996)
He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
Angela's Ashes (1996)
I'd like to stand up in those classes and announce to the world that I'm too busy to be Irish or Catholic or anything else, that I'm working day and night to make a living, trying to read books for my courses and falling asleep in the library [...].
Tis (2000)
If I went to the pub lunch and cleared my head with a pint surely there would be an insight, a flash of inspiration. Surely. My money went over the bar. The pint came back. Nothing else.
Teacher Man (2005)
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