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There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

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Robert Staughton Lynd
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Category: Christmas

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. One already feels like an anachronism writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.
  • 2. Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
  • 3. Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.
  • 2. Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.
  • 3. It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

3 Anger

  • 1. He who is incapable of feeling strong passions of being shaken by anger of living in every sense of the word will never be a good actor.
  • 2. It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
  • 3. Your anger is a gift.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
  • 2. As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.
  • 3. We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.

5 Architecture

  • 1. In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
  • 2. A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
  • 3. Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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