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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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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I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it.
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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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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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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
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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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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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