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Maurice Sendak Quotes: We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.
         

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.


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