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I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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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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I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
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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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There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
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