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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.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
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Graphic Designer
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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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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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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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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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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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I became a set designer for opera.
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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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God, I had great people in my life.
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I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.
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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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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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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.
Maurice Sendak
You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
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I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?
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Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.
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