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" Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do. "
Maurice Sendak
Children
Will
Parents
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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'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role. "
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" I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children. "
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" You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too. "
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" I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. "
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" I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did. "
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" I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive? "
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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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" That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father? "
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" I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter. "
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Always
Now
Worry
" I cry a lot because I miss people. "
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Lot
Miss
People
" I'm not a religious person. "
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Person
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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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Childhood
Anger
" The distinctions of fine art bore me to death. "
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Art
Me
Fine Art
" It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive. "
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Dawned
Way
Survive
" 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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Christian
Up
Nobody
" I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent. "
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Look
Intelligent
Fact
" I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy. "
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Mean
See
Want
" I'm not afraid of death. "
Maurice Sendak
Afraid
Death
" As a kid, all I thought about was death. "
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Death
Thought
Kid
" Yes, there have to be places for safe wonderful stories. "
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Places
Safe
Stories
" 'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father. "
Maurice Sendak
Stories
Father
Ever
" I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young. "
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Young
Work
Turned
" Kids are so shrewd. "
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Shrewd
Kids
" My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. "
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Work
Great
False
" I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. "
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Hate
Future
May
" I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again. "
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Believe
Again
Brother
" All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew. "
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Parents
Knew
" I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. "
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Turned
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