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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!

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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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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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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 never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.
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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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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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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'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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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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I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
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There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.
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If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up.
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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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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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If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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