"I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think."

-- Maurice Sendak

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“Iran is determined to remove ambiguities, continue talks and win its rights.”
“My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.”
“I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.”
“In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom from another world and a God from another sky, and that this God had invented the guilty and the dress, and had sent to be burnt alive who worships the Sun the Moon the Earth and the Rain that wets it.”
“It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.”
“Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.”
“I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable.”
“Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 05, 2014

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