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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
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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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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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That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
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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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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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And the walls became the world all around.
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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
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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 want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
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I don't know how to write a children's book.
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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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If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
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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'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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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
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If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up.
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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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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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To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.
Maurice Sendak
The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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