On Christmas http://books.google.com/books?id=TXDGeEkIN6oC&q=%22There+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%22&pg=PA85#v=onepage, The Book of This and That (1915)
interviewed regarding American Atheists' Jersey City, New Jersey "You Know It's a Myth" billboard.
“Christmas is never over, unless you want it to be… Christmas is a state of mind.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
“Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him?”
Interview with Christian Salmon (Fall 1983), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Series Seven [Viking, 1988, ], pp. 217-218
Context: Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
Film Companion - On The Move with Ekta Kapoor - 25 Feb 2019, at 24 Min 42 Sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA3o1Rgf0_M
From interview with Anupama Chopra
“I wrote "Eat It" because I wanted to buy a banana boat for Christmas. It worked.”
I Love the 80's 3D, VH1, 1985.
Source: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), p. 248
“Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.”
Source: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
“Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.”
2011-12-24
Christopher Hitchens on The True Spirit of Christmas
The Wall Street Jorunal
0099-9660
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204791104577110880355067656.html
2010s, 2011
