"Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross."

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Source : "The Paternal Pride of Maurice Sendak" by Bernard Holland, www.nytimes.com. November 8, 1987.

Maurice Sendak

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“A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.”
“Take my last best advice: Try everything twice!”
“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.”
“The first draft of a bookâ€”even a long oneâ€”should take no more than three months, the length of a season.”
“There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.”
“Do you know you couldn't get a date with a $20 bill taped to your forehead?”
“Be a little kinder than you have to.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.244, Delacorte Press
“The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.”

Source : "he Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance". Book by Laurie Garrett, 1995.

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