Quote by Frank McCourt
Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks Christmas vacat

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely. – Frank McCourt

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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

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I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isnt enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasnt prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food. – Frank McCourt

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I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn. – Muddy Waters

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I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybodys presents – everybodys – so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside. – Tommy Hilfiger

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Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself. – Francis C. Farley

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The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day. – David Eddings

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What I dont like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food. – Wolfgang Puck

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