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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?
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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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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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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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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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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[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.
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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother stupid, inane father.
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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 want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax.
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I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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