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Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.
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I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.
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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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A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. In fact, Verdi composed his two best operas, Otello and Falstaff, in his eighties.
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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 don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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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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I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother stupid, inane father.
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I stress character, character, character.
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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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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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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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