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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
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Painter
Screenwriter
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
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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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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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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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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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There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.
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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.
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