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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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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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I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
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Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.
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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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Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.
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I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.
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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!
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And the walls became the world all around.
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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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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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I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
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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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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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When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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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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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
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