Frank McCourt - Surely Quotes

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When the book was published in Ireland, I was denounced from hill, pulpit and barstool. Certain citizens claimed I had disgraced the fair name of the city of Limerick, that I had attacked the church, that I had despoiled my mother's name and that if I returned to Limerick, I would surely be found hanging from a lamppost.

Frank McCourt

If I went to the pub lunch and cleared my head with a pint surely there would be an insight, a flash of inspiration. Surely. My money went over the bar. The pint came back. Nothing else.

Frank McCourt