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Francis McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) 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.

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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.

Empty Mind, Palace, Shoes, Stock, Wisdom

Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?

Eggs, God, Heaven, Sweet, Taste, Warm

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

Beautiful, Head, Know, Lovely, World

I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?

Croquet, Doomed, Frankie, Says, Use

I don't believe in happiness anyway. . . it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

Anyway, Believe, Happiness, Pastime, Too Much

The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.

Ashes, Dad, Like, Thing, Wonder, World

I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.

Beginning, Exist, Future, Present

The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.

English, Give, Giving, Piss, Steam

There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.

Decision, Galore, Laughing, Saying, Simple, Trill

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

Inspirational, Mind, Optimistic, Poor, Shoes

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

Bars, Business, Merchandise, Mistake, Set

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice. . . It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

Crawl, Leaving, Like, Skins, Snakes, Whole

I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.

Children, Good, Like, Prayer, School

I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.

American, American Dream, Dream, Fantasy

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

Dance, Song, Tale, Tales, Tell

You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.

Bragging, Credit, Give, Giving, Would Be

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

House, Interfere, Mind, Part, Treasure, World

Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand at the goddam Jersey shore and then turn down a woman with three kids hanging on by her fingernails.

Fingernails, Kids, Lying, Spend, Three, Two

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Ashes, Empty Mind, House, Stock, Treasure, World

In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.

Brother, Counselor, Dancer, Mother, Politician, Uncles

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