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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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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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You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.
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I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.
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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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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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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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Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.
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I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. 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 not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?
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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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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother stupid, inane father.
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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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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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 have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
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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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My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.
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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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