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" I'm not obsessed with angels but I do adore angels. "
Maurice Sendak
Angels
Obsessed
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" 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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" 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'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever. "
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" I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.' "
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" I didn't have much confidence in myself... never. "
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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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" Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid. "
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" I'm sick of 'Wild Things.' "
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" I cry a lot because I miss people. "
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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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Simple
Silly
" My therapies went on forever. "
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" The distinctions of fine art bore me to death. "
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Me
Fine Art
" My father belonged to a Jewish social club. "
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Belonged
Club
" I feel like I don't have a lot of time left. "
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Feel
I Feel Like
Left
" My being gay was something of not great interest to me. "
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Great
Me
Something
" 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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Children
Tell
Truth
" It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive. "
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Dawned
Way
Survive
" I became a set designer for opera. "
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Opera
Designer
Set Designer
" I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! "
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Tests
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" You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too. "
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Too
Write
Happy
" There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books. "
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Pieces
Attached
Books
" I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again. "
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Believe
Again
Brother
" I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive? "
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I Am
Children
Survive
" Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment. "
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Out
Disappointment
Finding
" I hate people. "
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Hate
People
" I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children. "
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Write
Children
I Write
" I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. "
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Happiness
Mouse
Child
" When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. "
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