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" I'm not afraid of death. "
Maurice Sendak
Afraid
Death
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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 became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. "
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" I didn't have much confidence in myself... never. "
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" Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment. "
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Finding
" 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 hate people. "
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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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" 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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" I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep. "
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Fall
Show
" My being gay was something of not great interest to me. "
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Me
Something
" Kids lead a very private life. "
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Private Life
Private
Life
" I'm totally crazy, I know that. "
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Totally
Crazy
" Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. "
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Parents
Want
" 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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You
Better
" I'm not a religious person. "
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Religious
Person
Religious Person
" If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up. "
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Children
Work
Purpose
" There must be more to life than having everything. "
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Life
Everything
Than
" There's so much more to a book than just the reading. "
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Reading
Than
Much
" There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books. "
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Attached
Books
" Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. 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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Parents
Myself
Children
" 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 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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Brother
Alone
" I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. "
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" You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too. "
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" I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning. "
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" Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. "
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" Kids are so shrewd. "
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" I would infinitely prefer a daughter. "
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