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There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.

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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
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Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen, but obviously it didn't happen, or if it did, it happened when your back was turned, and then suddenly you were there. So I couldn't have thought about it much.
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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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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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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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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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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I stress character, character, character.
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Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.
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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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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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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
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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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