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We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.

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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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