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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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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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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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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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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?
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It was a very difficult time. I was working on [umble-Ardy] when my partner and friend was dying of cancer. We set up a room in the house to be like a hospital room. Eugene died, and then I had bypass surgery. I was doing the book to stay sane while all this was going on.
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
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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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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 know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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