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" My being gay was something of not great interest to me. "
Maurice Sendak
Great
Me
Something
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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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Anger
" Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. "
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Children
Wrong
" 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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" 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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Sister
You
Short
" I'm not afraid of death. "
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Afraid
Death
" I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young. "
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Work
Turned
" I refuse to lie to children. "
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Refuse
Lie
" My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. "
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Humor
Witty
" 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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Children
Complicated
Write
" 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
" It's no fun being lonely. "
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No Fun
Being
Fun
" I cry a lot because I miss people. "
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Lot
Miss
People
" 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
" 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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Sister
Brother
Alone
" We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. "
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Criminal
Animals
Violent
" I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning. "
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Constant
State
Mourning
" 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
" You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too. "
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Too
Write
Happy
" My therapies went on forever. "
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Forever
" What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is. "
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Deep
Respect
Children
" My father belonged to a Jewish social club. "
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Social
Belonged
Club
" I was miserable as a kid. "
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Miserable
Kid
" I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. "
Maurice Sendak
Books
Childhood
Children
" I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could. "
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Renaissance
Who
Nobody
" I'm not a religious person. "
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Religious
Person
Religious Person
" I don't need faith. "
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Need
Faith
" I became a set designer for opera. "
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Opera
Designer
Set Designer
" I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again. "
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Believe
Again
Brother
" To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time. "
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Time
Believing
Child
" 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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Purpose
Need
Me