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• Frank McCourt:

  Ireland, once you live there, you're seduced by it.

• Frank McCourt:

  We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor

• Frank McCourt:

  I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it.

• Frank McCourt:

  When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything l

• Frank McCourt:

  I would dream of going up to the 'New York Times' and asking them if I could please be a copy boy o

• Frank McCourt:

  I can do no more than tell the truth.

• Frank McCourt:

  People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!

• Frank McCourt:

  We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at t

• Frank McCourt:

  The uncluttered life is the key to a good memory.

• Frank McCourt:

  I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in t