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" I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. "
Maurice Sendak
Nor
Religious
Regrets
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" Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. "
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" I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child. "
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" Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean. "
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" I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. "
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" I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever. "
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" My work is not great, but it's respectable. "
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" I became a set designer for opera. "
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" Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously. "
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" I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role. "
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" I'm totally crazy, I know that. "
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" Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do. "
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" Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. "
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" Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them. "
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" My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health. "
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Bad
" I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be. "
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" I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better. "
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" We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. "
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Animals
Violent
" My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. "
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Old
Parents
" I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. "
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