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" I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead. "
Maurice Sendak
May
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Dead
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" There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. "
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" My parents were very indiscrete. "
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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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" 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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" You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. "
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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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" 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 only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive? "
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" I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. "
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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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" You don't want to do something that's all terrifying. "
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Way
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New York
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" I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. "
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Childhood
Children
" I have a good life. "
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Good
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Than
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