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" I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day. "

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" Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. "

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" God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it. "

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" Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. "

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" I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23. "

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" For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted. "

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" Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them. "

" We play everybody's Christmas records at our house, and sometimes you think, 'I'm not gonna play my own record; I'd be embarrassed.' But I'm gonna play our record this Christmas, because I love the songs! "

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" I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas. "

" I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing. "

" No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. "

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" For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, the weather outside is frightful, there are lots of leftovers to munch on, vacation hours are being used up. "

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" He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. "

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" The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed. "

" 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. "

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" I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion. "