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Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.

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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
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Accomplishment
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