"I watched the tall plain trees that ring three sides of it being pruned in what seemed a crazily brutal way .... Then, magically, for Christmas Eve and the formal opening with its speeches and music, the tall trees turned into arbres-de-Noel, twinkling with thousands of little lights the color of champagne."
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M. F. K. Fisher in "Considerable Town" quoted in: Elaine Partnow The Complete Idiot's Guide to Great Quotes for All Occasions, Penguin, 1 April 2008, p. 26.
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