You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Always a woman and child. Mam finds them wandering the streets and if they ask, Could you spare a few pennies, miss? her heart breaks. She never has money so she invites them home for tea and a bit of fried bread and if it's a bad night she'll let them sleep by the fire on a pile of rags in the corner. The bread she gives them always means less for us and if we complain she says there are always people worse off and we can surely spare a little from what we have.
It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head. - Frank Mccourt
It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
- Frank Mccourt
Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. - Frank Mccourt
Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.
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. - Frank Mccourt
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.
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your w… - Frank Mccourt
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your w…
I learned the significance of my own insignificant life. - Frank Mccourt
I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.
I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the… - Frank Mccourt
I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the…
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale. - Frank Mccourt
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever. - Frank Mccourt
They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.
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. - Frank Mccourt
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.
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