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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
Wish
Live
Good
Things
Life

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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.
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And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.
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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
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I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.
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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.
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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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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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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 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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Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!
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Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.
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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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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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You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.
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We all want to be renewed, don't we?
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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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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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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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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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