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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
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Graphic Designer
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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I don't know how to write a children's book.
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I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.
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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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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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Thank God that Bumble-Ardy's parents are dead so we don't have to wonder what they did to him. We only know that they were famous, and famous people have unhappy children for the most part. They don't have the time to take care of them. So he's a troubled pig-boy, a kid you've got to watch.
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God, I had great people in my life.
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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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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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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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I became a set designer for opera.
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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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I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.
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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
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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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All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
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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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