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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 scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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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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Thank God that Bumble-Ardy's parents are dead so we don't have to wonder what they did to him. We only know that they were famous, and famous people have unhappy children for the most part. They don't have the time to take care of them. So he's a troubled pig-boy, a kid you've got to watch.
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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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It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day. I'm pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.
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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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I stress character, character, character.
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If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up.
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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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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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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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 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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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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There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
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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! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.
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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
Maurice Sendak
I became a set designer for opera.
Maurice Sendak
That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
Maurice Sendak
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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