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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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It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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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 do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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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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Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.
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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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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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When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.
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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 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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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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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 don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.
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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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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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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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