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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
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Painter
Screenwriter
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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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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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 wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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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.
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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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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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I'm totally crazy, I know that.
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Kids lead a very private life.
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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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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
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I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.
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I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.
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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
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