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It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards or holiday cards including my atheist and secular friends.

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Christopher Hitchens
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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. My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid but in this day and age I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
  • 2. I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change but I can't obsess about it.
  • 3. I've been very competitive by nature from a young age whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else or always wanting to be the first one in line.

2 Amazing

  • 1. The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is to me still amazing but then to win a Tony was just incredible.
  • 2. I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws these amazing events. The symmetry of nature the structure and order of it.
  • 3. Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

3 Anger

  • 1. I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work and for the work I might be capable of.
  • 2. I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering and delivering with a sense of violent love.
  • 3. I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.
  • 2. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
  • 3. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.
  • 2. The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
  • 3. I went to school for engineering I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them so I went to architecture school in New York.
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