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I became a set designer for opera.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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Thank God that Bumble-Ardy's parents are dead so we don't have to wonder what they did to him. We only know that they were famous, and famous people have unhappy children for the most part. They don't have the time to take care of them. So he's a troubled pig-boy, a kid you've got to watch.
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Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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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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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
Maurice Sendak
I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
Maurice Sendak
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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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 don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.
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How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it
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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.
Maurice Sendak
If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
Maurice Sendak
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.
Maurice Sendak
I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
Maurice Sendak
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.
Maurice Sendak
Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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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!
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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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