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Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.
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 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.
Maurice Sendak
When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.
Maurice Sendak
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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As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child dream of books, make books and collect books.
Maurice Sendak
That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
Maurice Sendak
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.
Maurice Sendak
And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.
Maurice Sendak
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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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
Maurice Sendak
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.
Maurice Sendak
[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.
Maurice Sendak
And the walls became the world all around.
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I became a set designer for opera.
Maurice Sendak
Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
Maurice Sendak
I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!
Maurice Sendak
There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
Maurice Sendak
I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.
Maurice Sendak
We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
Maurice Sendak
I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
Maurice Sendak
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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