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As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.
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 hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
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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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When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.
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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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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
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I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
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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!
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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother stupid, inane father.
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I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.
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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
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I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.
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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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