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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.
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And the walls became the world all around.
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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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