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Quote by Francoise Mouly

“I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults.”

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Françoise Mouly, born on October 24, 1955, is an accomplished editor with a significant impact on the fields of children's literature and illustration. She is particularly renowned for her editorial work at The New Yorker magazine. more

“When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention; I was going to be a lawyer. Why? Because it was as far as I could get from my father's antics and world. I thought that the world of the arts probably led people into the kind of behavior I had seen with him and that had resulted in a lot of hard times for my mother and me.”

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“Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.”

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“I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.”

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Author:James Lipton

“I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.”

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Author:James Lipton

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