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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
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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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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Kids lead a very private life.
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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Bumble-Ardy is a very wicked little child as far as I'm concerned. He's not to be trusted.
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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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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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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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It was a very difficult time. I was working on [umble-Ardy] when my partner and friend was dying of cancer. We set up a room in the house to be like a hospital room. Eugene died, and then I had bypass surgery. I was doing the book to stay sane while all this was going on.
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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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I'm totally crazy, I know that.
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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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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother stupid, inane father.
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A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. In fact, Verdi composed his two best operas, Otello and Falstaff, in his eighties.
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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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I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.
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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
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You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.
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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
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I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.
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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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