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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

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Most children – I know I did when I was a kid – fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They dont tell their real parents about that – you dont want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar. – Maurice Sendak

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I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didnt want to be a child. – Maurice Sendak

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We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Informd what is the true Way to Happiness. – Mary Astell

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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in ones earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. – Ashley Montagu

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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Mans happiness really lies in contentment. – Mahatma Gandhi

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