It's lovely to know that the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.
("Angela's Ashes")
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I don't absolve my father completely of his responsibility for what he did to us... I feel compassion, maybe. He had his demons. But I still can't understand how a man can walk away from children. And leave them to starve, as we nearly did, if it wasn't for my mother going out and begging.Frank McCourt
My mother died in New York... she was cremated, and we took her ashes to Ireland one week and scattered the ashes on her family's gravesite.
Frank McCourt
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
Frank McCourt
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
Frank McCourt
I'm very mindful of this franchise's tradition of greatness.
Frank McCourt
He loves and respects the game, he honestly respects people. These values, these character attributes really, really jumped off the page for me. The talent, the experience is clearly there, but I also wanted to emphasize the chemistry, the character, the values.
Frank McCourt
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