"Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely."
-Frank McCourt
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"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.“
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"The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher."
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"Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow."
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"I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food."
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"How sweet it is!"
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