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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.


Shirley Temple


#asked #autograph #believing #claus #department

By first believing in Santa Claus, then the Easter Bunny, then the Tooth Fairy, Rant Casey was recognizing that those myths are more than pretty stories and traditions to delight children. Or to modify behavior. Each of those three traditions asks a child to believe in the impossible in exchange for a reward. These are stepped-up tests to build a child's faith and imagination. The first test is to believe in a magical person, with toys as the reward. The second test is to trust in a magical animal, with candy as the reward. The last test is the most difficult, with the most abstract reward: To believe, trust in a flying fairy that will leave money. From a man to an animal to a fairy. From toys to candy to money. Thus, interestingly enough, transferring the magic of faith and trust from sparkling fairy-dom to clumsy, tarnished coins. From gossamer wings to nickels... dimes... and quarters. In this way, a child is stepped up to greater feats of imagination and faith as he or she matures. Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.


Chuck Palahniuk


#conditioning #santa-claus #tooth-fairy #faith

To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.


Carrie Brownstein


#could #crawl #daring #describe #get

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.


Lee Child


#claustrophobic #crime #geography #internal #limited

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.


Steven Wright


#claus #got #missing #moved #now

The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.


Harold H. Greene


#between #branches #clauses #constitution #difference

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.


Dick Gregory


#because #believed #claus #come #dark

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.


David Hockney


#claustrophobic #come #crowds #house #i

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.


David Hockney


#claustrophobic #i #know #now

What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.


Anthony Holden


#claustrophobic #feeling #get #give #her






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