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There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
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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Kids lead a very private life.
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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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How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it
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And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
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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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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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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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Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.
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there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
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Children do live in fantasy and reality they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
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One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.
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If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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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 became a set designer for opera.
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