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Kids lead a very private life.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
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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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And the walls became the world all around.
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One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.
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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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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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I said anything I wanted because I don't believe in children I don't believe in childhood. I don't believe that there's a demarcation. 'Oh you mustn't tell them that. You mustn't tell them that.' You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it's true. If it's true you tell them.
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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
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A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister, who was the eldest, brought books home for me, and I think I spent more time sniffing and touching them than reading. I just remember the joy of the book, the beauty of the binding. The smelling of the interior. Happy.
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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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And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
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One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.
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I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
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And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.
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[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.
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When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.
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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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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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There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
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