29 Quotes by Jean Shepherd

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    Our family always had its Christmas on Christmas Eve. Other less fortunate people, I had heard, opened their presents in the chill clammy light of dawn. Far more civilized, our Santa Claus recognized that barbaric practice for what it was.

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    Kissel worked in Idleness the way other artists worked in clay or marble.

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