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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
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
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Painter
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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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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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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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother stupid, inane father.
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When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.
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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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I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.
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And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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