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"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."
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"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."
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"Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"
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"Knowledge is life."
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"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."
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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
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"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."
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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
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"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."
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"I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was."
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"I have been drawing all my life."
Life
"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
Beginning
"I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh."
Thought
"Each book first begins with a little idea."
Creativity
"When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!"
Childhood
"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
Work
"Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented."
Parenting
"Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books."
Thought
"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."
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