The poverty and the influence of the church were very damaging. It damaged all of us emotionally. To be poor deprives you of self-esteem. -Frank Mccourt

 

The poverty and the influence of the church were very damaging. It damaged all of us emotionally. To be poor deprives you of self-esteem.


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All those smells... and the kids, we were the great unwashed... nobody ever knew what a shower was... We washed maybe from eyebrow to chin, week after week after week. Our crotches were innocent of water.

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277

When I first came to New York and saw Italian families and their displays of affection, I was taken aback a bit because it was uninhibited.

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We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Frank Mccourt
177

I was tormented. Fear and trembling. And a sense of doom. A literal belief in hell. Hell for eternity. With devils chasing you for eternity with pitchforks. I trembled. I couldn't go to sleep for fear I might die and wake up in hell. I was in agony.

Frank Mccourt
156
We were just slogging on from day to day and making the best of it. But with a light at the end of the tunnel... AMERICA! -Frank Mccourt
133

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

Frank Mccourt
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