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I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

- Frank McCourt
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Frank McCourt
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I can do no more than tell the truth.

When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.

At 66, you're supposed to die or get hemorrhoids.

Scatter my ashes on the Shannon.

It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me.

We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.

My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time.

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.

My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.

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I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.