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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.
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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
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I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.
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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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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
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You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.
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I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
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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.
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I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of [writing] something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.
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I became a set designer for opera.
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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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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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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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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.
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I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
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