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I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature with

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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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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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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The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. – Lysander Spooner

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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. – Thomas Jefferson

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The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team. – Hayden Fry

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I never viewed money as being my money I always saw it as the money. Its a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system. – Louis C. K.

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