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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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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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Bumble-Ardy is a very wicked little child as far as I'm concerned. He's not to be trusted.
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?
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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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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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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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I stress character, character, character.
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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 want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax.
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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 don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.
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I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
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Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.
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I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.
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I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.
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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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