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It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day. I'm pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.

Maurice Sendak

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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
Hope
Sing
Work
Walk
Every
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Good
Lose
Walks
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Pretty
Idiocy
Sleep
Abundance

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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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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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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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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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You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.
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