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Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
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I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of [writing] something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.
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God, I had great people in my life.
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I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it.
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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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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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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
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I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.
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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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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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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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I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.
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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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I'm totally crazy, I know that.
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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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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'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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