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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
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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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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 want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening.
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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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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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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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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 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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Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.
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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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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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Kids lead a very private life.
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I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.
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I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.
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