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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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Thank God that Bumble-Ardy's parents are dead so we don't have to wonder what they did to him. We only know that they were famous, and famous people have unhappy children for the most part. They don't have the time to take care of them. So he's a troubled pig-boy, a kid you've got to watch.
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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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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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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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We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.
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That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
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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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You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.
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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it
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If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up.
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I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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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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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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I don't know how to write a children's book.
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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
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