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Ive convinced myself - I hope Im right - that children despair of

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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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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Id like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever. – 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. – Maurice Sendak

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Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isnt the one on the plane. I want a real doctor. – Anthony Edwards

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Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams. – S.A. Sachs

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He that waits for a dead mans shoes may long go barefoot. – Proverb

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