He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash him down and give him a big feed of rashers and eggs and mashed potatoes with loads of butter and salt and onions. I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling. Frank McCourt
None of us can choose where we shall love...
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Susan Kay
There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.
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Patrick Rothfuss
It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way
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Jeremy Aldana
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces....
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Frederick Buechner
To perceive is to suffer.
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Aristotle
More Quotes By Frank McCourt
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.
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...
Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry...
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.
