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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 don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.
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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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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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God, I had great people in my life.
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
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Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.
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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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In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
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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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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
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As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.
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I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.
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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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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
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There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
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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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