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Malachy McCourt Quotes: I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
         

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.


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They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.



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I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.



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We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.



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If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.



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To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.





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