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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.

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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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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've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.
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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
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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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That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
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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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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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How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it
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To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.
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The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?
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