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To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.
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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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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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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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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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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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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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
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I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.
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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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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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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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And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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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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How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it
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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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A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister, who was the eldest, brought books home for me, and I think I spent more time sniffing and touching them than reading. I just remember the joy of the book, the beauty of the binding. The smelling of the interior. Happy.
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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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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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As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child dream of books, make books and collect books.
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I became a set designer for opera.
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