“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.”

—  Frank McCourt, book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)

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Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer 1930–2009

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