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I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

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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
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Life

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I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
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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 surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.
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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.
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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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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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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother stupid, inane father.
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We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
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Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.
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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
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It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day. I'm pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.
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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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When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.
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