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I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
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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'm totally crazy, I know that.
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I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.
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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother stupid, inane father.
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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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A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. In fact, Verdi composed his two best operas, Otello and Falstaff, in his eighties.
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I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. 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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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.
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I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.
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God, I had great people in my life.
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We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.
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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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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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