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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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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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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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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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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 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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I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.
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I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?
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I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
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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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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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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.
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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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Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.
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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.
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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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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
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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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