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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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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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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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Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
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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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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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Bumble-Ardy is a very wicked little child as far as I'm concerned. He's not to be trusted.
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I became a set designer for opera.
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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
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I'm totally crazy, I know that.
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I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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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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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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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother stupid, inane father.
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God, I had great people in my life.
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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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