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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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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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