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“I have nothing against Saturnalia, it belongs to this season of the year: but how do we get so confused about the true meaning of even our simplest-appearing pastimes?”

Katherine Anne Porter, A Christmas Story. First appeared in Mademoiselle (December, 1946)”
American Christmas Stories edited by Connie Willis

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“Christmas is what we make it and this is what we have so cynically made of it: not the feast of the Child in the straw-filled crib, nor even the homely winter bounty of the old pagan with the reindeer, but a great glittering commercial fair, gay enough with music and food and extravagance of feeling and behavior and expense, more and more on the order of the ancient Saturnalia…”

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“And the crowd of men and women shuffle up and down the aisles, up and down the streets outside. The holidays bring them all an identical gift. The holidays bring them the gift of memory.”

“Christmas Thoughts” by Ben Hecht, 1921 from American Christmas Stories edited by Connie Willis

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“There are many noble-hearted people who might experience a dawn of love for their fellow man toward the end of the year if there had never been a Christmas. But they are in the minority”

“Holiday Thoughts” by Ben Hecht, 1921 from American Christmas Stories edited by Connie Willis #americanchristmasstories #christmasStories #traditions

“TRADITIONS ARE THINGS which take the place of initiative. And so people lean on them. Traditions make it seemingly necessary for them to do things that they would not ordinarily do because they were too tired, too empty or too lacking in interest. The observing of great holidays is a matter of tradition.”
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“The Sermon In The Cradle” by W.E.B. Du Bois, 1921, American Christmas Stories edited by Connie Willis #americanchristmasstories #christmas #christmasstories #webdubois #americanhistory

“And the child, seeing the multitudes, opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

Blessed are poor folks for they shall go to heaven.
Blessed are sad folks for someone will bring them joy.
Blessed are they that submit to hurts for they shall sometime own the world.
Blessed are they that truly want to do right for they shall get their wish.
Blessed are those who do not seek revenge for vengeance will not seek them.

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