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Maurice Sendak

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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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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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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 often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.
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I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
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I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.
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I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.
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I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.
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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
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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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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax.
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Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.
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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
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And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
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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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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
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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.
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