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" I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again. "
Maurice Sendak
Believe
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" When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. "
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" I'm not afraid of death. "
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" I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did. "
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" I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay? "
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" My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health. "
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Health
Bad
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