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I'm totally crazy, I know that.

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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
Totally
Crazy

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In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
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Bumble-Ardy is a very wicked little child as far as I'm concerned. He's not to be trusted.
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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
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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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As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.
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I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.
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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.
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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
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Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.
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I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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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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