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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
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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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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I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it.
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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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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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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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Children do live in fantasy and reality they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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I stress character, character, character.
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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.
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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and making toy airplanes and a whole model of the World's Fair in 1939 out of wax.
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