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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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If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up.
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I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.
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As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child dream of books, make books and collect books.
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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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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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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 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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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
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I don't know how to write a children's book.
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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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Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.
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Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.
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Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.
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There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
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