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Description
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“Stock your mind. Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it....You mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas, it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is your palace.”
Frank's headmaster in school
First Sentence
"My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born. Instead, they returned to Ireland when I was four, my brother, Malachy, three, the twins, Oliver and Eugene, barely one, and my sister, Margaret, dead and gone."
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Authors & Contributors
- Frank McCourt (Author)
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize (1997: Biography)
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