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I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
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
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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.
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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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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 never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.
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I'm totally crazy, I know that.
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there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
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