"In the present, every day is a miracle."
"A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset."
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Source: James Gould Cozzens, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1978). “Just representations: a James Gould Cozzens reader”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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