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For My Father The One Calamity Was That My Brother And Sister And I Never Learned To Swim. My Father, Who Was Very Macho, Was A Strong Swimmer And Was Terribly Disappointed To Have Children Who Didn't Swim. Once When My Mother Was Sitting In A Beach Chair - I Can Still See The Big Umbrella - She Called To My Father, "throw Them In! Throw Them In! They'll Swim!" So He Did. Then He Looked Down, And There Were The Three Sendak Children Lying Perfectly Still Underwater, Not Fighting For Life!

I Want To See Me To The End Working, Living For Myself. Ripeness Is All.

You Can't Get Rid Of Evil. We Can't, And I Feel That So Intensely.

As A Kid, All I Thought About Was Death. But You Can't Tell Your Parents That.

We've Educated Children To Think Spontaneity Is Inappropriate.