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I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.

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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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From their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
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I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
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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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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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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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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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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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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 could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.
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Thank God that Bumble-Ardy's parents are dead so we don't have to wonder what they did to him. We only know that they were famous, and famous people have unhappy children for the most part. They don't have the time to take care of them. So he's a troubled pig-boy, a kid you've got to watch.
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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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The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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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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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
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I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.
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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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