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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 often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.
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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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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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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
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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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I'm totally crazy, I know that.
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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 have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
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In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
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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.
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Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.
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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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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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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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One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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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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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
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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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