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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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Painter
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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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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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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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.
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You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.
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there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
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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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It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day. I'm pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.
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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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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
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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! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.
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I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.
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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
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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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I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax.
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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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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
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