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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
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Painter
Screenwriter
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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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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[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.
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A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister, who was the eldest, brought books home for me, and I think I spent more time sniffing and touching them than reading. I just remember the joy of the book, the beauty of the binding. The smelling of the interior. Happy.
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Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.
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I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.
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I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
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Kids lead a very private life.
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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
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How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it
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The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child dream of books, make books and collect books.
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I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
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And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.
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I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.
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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!
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