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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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Bumble-Ardy is a very wicked little child as far as I'm concerned. He's not to be trusted.
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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.
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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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I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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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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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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Kids lead a very private life.
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It was a very difficult time. I was working on [umble-Ardy] when my partner and friend was dying of cancer. We set up a room in the house to be like a hospital room. Eugene died, and then I had bypass surgery. I was doing the book to stay sane while all this was going on.
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there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
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I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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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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If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
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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.
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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
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I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.
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