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" My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. "
Maurice Sendak
Work
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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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" 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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