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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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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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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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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother stupid, inane father.
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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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I became a set designer for opera.
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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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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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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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I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
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Kids lead a very private life.
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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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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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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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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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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 did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
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