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" I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. "
Maurice Sendak
Turned
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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 want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother. "
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" As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that. "
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" I'm totally crazy, I know that. "
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" I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning. "
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" That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father? "
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" We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. "
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" My being gay was something of not great interest to me. "
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