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There is
nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival
reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children
on the adult world.
-- Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern
Philosopher, Writer
Washington's
birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian
country dare come this side of blasphemy.
-- Alistair Cooke
1908-, British Broadcaster,
Journalist
The red-letter
days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter
days.
-- Charles Lamb
1775-1834, British Essayist,
Critic
It is at a
fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or
fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a
trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a
thief looking for his fortune.
-- E
lwyn) B(rooks) White
(1899-1985, American Author, Editor
Seasons
pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it
is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and
small arms!)
-- Walt Whitman
1819-1892, American Poet
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