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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
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
Obsessive
Surviving
Theme
Concern
Childhood
Children
Life

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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.
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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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One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.
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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! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.
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Kids lead a very private life.
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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.
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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 have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
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Bumble-Ardy is a very wicked little child as far as I'm concerned. He's not to be trusted.
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I'm totally crazy, I know that.
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I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.
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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.
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You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.
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I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.
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I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
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