| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 49002 |
| QUOTATION: | One of the few graces of getting old—and God knows there are few graces—is that if you’ve worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what’s happening to me. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Maurice Sendak (20th century), U.S. children’s author and illustrator. As quoted in an interview with Leonard S. Marcus, Parenting (October 1993). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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