"A song about McCourt's bar on Third Avenue. By Maggie and Terre Roch"

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“A Couple of Blaguards, the stageplay Malachy performed with his brother, Frank”

“Cute in Ireland meant cunning and devious … And I'm not sure that I'm not.”

“I left school at age 13. I was illiterate with no role models. The great psychobabble today is the dysfunctional family. Well, I've never met one that was functional. In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.”

“On his brother Frank: He's an amazing man … When he was 12, one of our schoolmasters said: "My boy, you are a literary genius. My strong suggestion is to go to America. They will appreciate you there." Over the years I've read what he's written that never got published, and I always said it still holds. He is a literary genius. Also the most nonjudgmental decent guy. He forgives.”

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— Rick Yune

Art1971

#mind

"I'll grant you that it would possible to track the pregnancy of the woman Mary who's mentioned about three times in the Bible and to show there was no male intervention in her life at all but yet she …"

— Christopher Hitchens

Philosophy1949–2011

#religion

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Education1967

#family

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— Masahiro Sakurai

Entertainment1970

#time