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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
Obsessive
Surviving
Theme
Concern
Childhood
Children
Life

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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.
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I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
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