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Quote by Maurice Sendak
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the

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

Other quotes by Maurice Sendak

I became a set designer for opera. Im a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. – Maurice Sendak

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Music
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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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Money
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Maurice Sendak
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Other Quotes from
Humor
category

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure. – Leila Josefowicz

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Humor

Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words. – Dorothy Parker

Category:
Humor

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor. – George Jean Nathan

Category:
Humor

I love Sell Out, I think its great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. Its got humor, great songs, irony. – Roger Daltrey

Category:
Humor

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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. – W. H. Auden

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In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian. – Sugar Ray Leonard

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Mosaic is the 1990s equivalent of forcing friends to sit through slides of your trip to Florida – painful for everyone but the host. – Steve G. Steinberg

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