“Le diré a Mamá que has bebido una pinta en el ataud de Eugene.”
Citas de sus novelas
Fuente: Las cenizas de Ángela (1996)
Francis "Frank" McCourt fue un novelista y profesor irlandés estadounidense. Fue conocido principalmente por ser el autor de Las cenizas de Ángela , por la que fue galardonado con el Premio Pulitzer en 1997 y fue llevada al cine en 1999, así como de tres secuelas igualmente autobiográficas.
“Le diré a Mamá que has bebido una pinta en el ataud de Eugene.”
Citas de sus novelas
Fuente: Las cenizas de Ángela (1996)
“El buen gusto es lo que surge cuando se muere la imaginación.”
Citas de sus novelas
Fuente: Lo es (1999)
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
Fuente: Angela's Ashes (1996)
Contexto: He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
“It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.”
Fuente: Angela's Ashes (1996)
“Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.”
Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes (1996)
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'Tis (2000)
Fuente: ' Tis: a Memoir
Contexto: Why is it the minute I open my mouth the whole world is telling me they're Irish and we should all have a drink? It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen.
“I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.”
Fuente: Angela's Ashes
“I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.”
Angela's Ashes (1996)
“If there was a circle, I was never a part of it. I prowled the periphery.”
Teacher Man (2005)