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Frank McCourt

"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."

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"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."

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"I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order."

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"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."

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"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."

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"From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it."

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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

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"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

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"I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument."

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