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" I don't need faith. "
Maurice Sendak
Need
Faith
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" I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist. "
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" I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent. "
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" I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive? "
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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 became a set designer for opera. "
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" My father belonged to a Jewish social club. "
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" Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment. "
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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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" Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. "
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Sometimes
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Wrong
" My being gay was something of not great interest to me. "
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Me
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" We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do. "
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Things
Against
" 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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Simple
Silly
" I hate people. "
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Hate
People
" You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too. "
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Too
Write
Happy
" My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. "
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Work
Great
False
" In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. "
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Crazy
Childhood
Anger
" There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. "
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Country
Children
Understanding
" I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. "
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Hate
Future
May
" I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role. "
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Accept
Role
Illustrator
" 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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Idiot
Take
Seriously
" 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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Children
Will
Parents
" I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep. "
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Watching
Fall
Show
" All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew. "
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Happy
Parents
Knew
" 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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Christian
Up
Nobody
" I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think. "
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" My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. "
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