Frank McCourt Quotes

Francis McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. August 1930 – 19. July 2009   •   Other names فرانک مک‌کورت, Ֆրանք Մքոթ
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Angela's Ashes
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Teacher Man
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'Tis
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Famous Frank McCourt Quotes

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)
Context: 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.

“It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen”

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'Tis (2000)
Source: ' Tis: a Memoir
Context: Why is it the minute I open my mouth the whole world is telling me they're Irish and we should all have a drink? It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen.

Frank McCourt Quotes about the world

Frank McCourt Quotes

“I ate the sandwich.”

Teacher Man (2005)

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