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Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
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Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother stupid, inane father.
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I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
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Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.
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As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child dream of books, make books and collect books.
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Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.
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I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
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I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
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I stress character, character, character.
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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.
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I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.
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I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.
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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.
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