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Quote by Maurice Sendak
Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of

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. – Maurice Sendak

Other quotes by Maurice Sendak

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I dont know. I dont know. Ive convinced myself – I hope Im right – that children despair of you if you dont tell them the truth. – Maurice Sendak

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Hope
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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. – Maurice Sendak

Category:
Humor
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I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and Im dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. Theyre nowhere. I know theyre nowhere and they dont exist, but if nowhere means thats where they are, thats where I want to be. – Maurice Sendak

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alone
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Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know. – Richard Ford

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of ones life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana

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Happiness

So, my happiness doesnt come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle. – Nicki Minaj

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Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind. – Alice Meynell

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