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" My therapies went on forever. "
Maurice Sendak
Forever
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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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Up
Nobody
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Hate
People
" There's so much more to a book than just the reading. "
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Than
Much
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" 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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Myself
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