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He is a literary genius. Also the most nonjudgmental decent guy. He forgives.

— Frank 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)

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)

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Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)

Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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